Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notion that air conditioning and Diesel engineering will employ vast numbers of new workers is just a notion: last year 100,000 went to Diesel schools, only 4,000 got jobs. Reason: Diesel engineering recruits most of its workers from gasoline engineers, who can learn Diesel work in a week or two. Similarly, air conditioning employs made-over plumbers...
More remarkable was The Netherlands growth in manufactures. Lacking most of her food, forced to import almost all her industrial raw materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
...Hamilton, who sold G. M. on the idea of going into the business and has been smart enough to carry on as Electro-Motive's president, explains: each oil-burning Diesel switcher brings its purchaser an average yearly operating saving of about $17,000. Sour-grapes reason given by Hamilton's competitors: with the amount of traffic which General Motors can dangle before the railroads, it could sell them dog sleds...
Dodge: a new 1½-ton cab-over-engine truck, wheelbase 105" or 129", price $825 up. Other models include 23 body styles, six engines (five gasoline, one heavy Diesel), capacities one-half to three tons, prices $465 to $3,650. Feature: horsepower higher than last year...
Studebaker: lowest priced model is a passenger coupé with an express body vice rumble seat -$660. Nine other models from half-ton pick-up ($733) to three-ton truck (cab-over-engine or regular) at $2,055. Studebaker also makes a two-ton Diesel...