Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom talk grown by last week that newspaper statisticians were already compiling lists of industries which will set all-time production records in 1936-a job usually reserved for the annual year-end review editions. Such Depression-reared industries as plastics, airconditioning, Diesel engines, cellulose products are sure to make new marks...
Most interesting exhibits to the layman browsing about the Truck Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were...
Caterpillar Tractor, largest U. S. maker of Diesel-type power units, reported third-quarter profits of $2,551,379, compared to $1,403,491 in the same three months last year. Profits for the nine months were $7,032,470 as against $4,311,643 in the same period...
...honor of this truce the U. S. company was appropriately renamed United American Bosch Corp. Deep in the automobile equipment business. United American makes horns, starters, generators, windshield wipers, ignition systems for Henry Ford. Other lines include radios, Diesel engine accessories, gas appliances. Magnetos are still Bosch's most profitable line. Every winner of the Indianapolis Sweepstakes for the past eleven years has had Bosch ignition. United's best year was 1928 when it took in $13,400,000, kept $1,000,000 profit. Deficits were the rule during the depth of Depression, though by last year...
...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...