Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
Count von Luckner's private yacht, the "Mopelia," formerly known as the "Vaterland," is to be the cruise ship. She is 235 feet in length, spread 28,000 feet of sail, and is powered with two Diesel auxiliaries. A large smoking room is one of the features of the ship, and here every night, beyond the twelve-mile limit, the cruise party will gather to hear of the thrilling sea raids of Count von Luckner during the World...
...supervise the finishing operations on the ketch, Atlantis, which is being built in Denmark for the Woods Hole Institute. The 142 foot steel boat was put in the water recently but is yet far from completion. The ship when completed will be powered by a 300 horse-power diesel motor and four sails. Costing $175,000 the ketch will have two laboratories, ten tons of wire rope, and quarters...
Penny-A-Mile. In Detroit last week landed a Buhl Airsedan, powered by a crude-oil burning Packard Diesel engine. The plane, with three occupants, had flown 12,000 mi. over the western U. S. Total fuel cost, $108.20; average...
...brick-&-concrete structures on a 50-acre plot have been placed a collection of specially designed radio instruments. Dials and switches are strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil...