Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Electric Co. started building the first pilot plant to convert nuclear fission to electrical energy, although the use of atomic power to generate electricity on a commercial scale seemed at least a decade off. On U.S. railroads, the diesel revolution was in full spin; of 1,159 new locomotives put in service during the first ten months, 1,082 were diesels. Jet engines 4 swooshed into their own; of the 3,661 new military planes ordered during the year, 2,209 were jet-powered...
Everything on Wheels. His principality now spreads from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Pacific. The unions encompassed by his Western Conference of Teamsters move virtually "everything on wheels" in the eleven western states. His men send enormous diesel rigs snarling across the Mojave Desert, drive hearses in Oakland, deliver laundry in Seattle, unload mining machinery in Butte...
...people in the Harvard stands didn't go to sleep, though. They screamed and yelled and hollered as Valpey's harvest hands mowed down the Bruins. When Paul Shafer began cutting his way through the middle of the line, one Crimson enthusiast cut loose with a Diesel horn for accompaniment. The Brown linemen must have found the sound chillingly appropriate as they encountered the head, knees, elbows, and hips of Mr. Shafer...
Electric trains, scarce in some cities last year, are back in abundance everywhere with such refinements as Gilbert's talking station (it announces arrivals & departures) and Lionel's scale models of Santa Fe and New York Central diesel trains. Trains will get lively competition from a new type of toy-the remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal...
Railroads. The Pennsylvania Railroad came up with a $216,700,000 improvement program, biggest in its 102-year history. On the Pennsy's shopping list are 192 new diesel engines and 395 new passenger coaches. Eventually all its through trains will have children's playrooms and movie theaters...