Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops marched unopposed until they reached Patras (prewar pop. about 60,000), third largest city of Greece. After four days' fighting with a garrison of about 1,000 Germans, the battle ended when the Greek collaborators surrendered, the Germans took to their Diesel-propelled ferries by night...
...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
...clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
...Edward J. Engel, 70, lured Gurley from the Burlington in 1939, made him executive vice president of the Santa Fe. Since then Engel & Gurley have spent over $200 million for new rolling stock, better signals and improvements to Santa Fe's 13,500 miles of track. Both became diesel enthusiasts; the Santa Fe owns more diesels than any other railroad. With the new equipment, Santa Fe has been able to keep pace with the traffic boom that shot gross revenue from $160 million in 1939 to $471 million last year...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...