Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mushrooming U.S. merchant marine (50 million tons in 1944) is about to add a new and useful type of vessel-a small (4,000 ton), fast (12 knot), and economical (diesel-powered) freighter...
...university city of Bonn. The raid was expensive: Twenty-five bombers were lost, mostly over Gelsenkirchen. Apparently the Germans were no longer able to defend more than one city at a time. To the Heart. R.A.F. bombers struck in force at Nuremberg, shrine of the Nazi party. Two large diesel-engine factories, two trunk railway junctions and other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft. Pesky Mosquito bombers flying at 400 m.p.h...
...with anyone who was not a definite member of the Fascist Party. Self-determination of government by the Italian people would come later. To show the Italians what kind of occupiers we are, to prevent Sicily from slipping into hunger and disease, Mr. Roosevelt added, food, medical supplies and diesel oil for milling wheat are already being shipped from North Africa. Selected war prisoners will be freed to help in the harvest, which begins in a few weeks...
...breath. The officer of the deck muttered: "Granted," returned to his own search of the darkness. Aft, the fresh-eyed lookout took the heavy Navy binoculars from the man on watch, began to scan his sector. Then his voice lifted over the wet mumble of the charging diesel: "Gunfire bearing one seven...
With only a paper model under his arm, "Hurry-up Henry" finally went to F.D.R., the man with whom he works best, got the President to order 50 carriers built. Next came an even bigger hurdle - a shortage of turbines, gears, diesel engines. Finally he adopted a little-known steam engine invented in 1912, one never used before on large ships...