Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing touches on designs for a new diesel-electric locomotive. Ingalls hopes to sell railroads 150 every postwar year...
...Still Another? For many years after the war, Bob Ingalls devoutly believes, his yard will be busy. The diesel-electric locomotive orders should take up the slack between ship contracts. Last week shipping circles buzzed with a rumor of still another project. The rumor: after the war Ingalls will build a fleet of fast ships, operate them under his own house-flag carrying fruits and vegetables from West Coast ports to Europe...
Family groups in fours and fives pushed and pulled at carts loaded with all their possessions. There were trucks of all kinds, American trucks almost new and G.M.C.s ready for the junk yard. There were old German trucks burning stinking diesel oil, commercial trucks burning sweet-smelling alcohol. Every truck was piled five to ten feet high with baggage or goods. Humanity clustered over the baggage on the trucks, over the mudguards, over the driver...
...swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...