Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the coach put on his act for Navy officials. Two gallons of mixed gasoline and diesel oil were ignited on the surface of a swimming pool. Flames spread two feet high along the water. Freddie's perfected method looked so good that four naval officers tried it, emerged with eyebrows unsinged...
Federal Shipbuilding is busy on two mystery destroyers of 2,100 tons. One is reported to have super-high-pressure steam boilers; the other diesel-electric drive, new wrinkles...
...bulky and expensive. Tobe barged into the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ. early in 1940 to try for some business. More to get rid of him than anything else, the Major in charge gave him the toughest problem he had: to make a practical filter for a Diesel generator that so far had rendered useless the radio that had to go in the same car. In two months, Tobe's engineers had the thing licked, and before long they had gone on to develop a new filter for Army cars that cut the old cost from...
...Maintaining industrial equipment. One massive 9½-ft., 2,400-lb. Diesel crankshaft was worn at its bearing points. Wartime replacement was impossible; in any case, would have taken twelve weeks. A hot-metal sprayer, using 45 lb. of steel wire, resurfaced the worn shaft in ten hours...
...automotive industry has undertaken to build 75% of all the aircraft engines, more than 33% of the machine guns, 40% of the tanks, besides all the motorized units. One company alone is making more than half the Diesel engines for the whole U.S. Navy...