Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sahagun is the clean and prosperous home of three modern factories. One is the $32 million Diesel Nacional, Inc., managed by Italy's Fiat works and. financed half by Fiat and half by Mexicans...
There, on a production line neat as the works of a watch, 1,000 workers assemble diesel trucks and little Fiat cars. Another factory builds boxcars for Mexican railways, employs 228 men. The third is a $4,000,000 made-in-Japan factory that last week started producing the first made-in-Mexico textile manufacturing machinery. Financed mostly by Tokyo's Toyoda Mills, it is run by Japanese engineers, employs 800 Mexicans whose highest skill until lately was making mescal...
...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...
...them hurried forward to shake Ford's hand. In Wilmington, Del., General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice, who is worried about FRB's tightening of credit (see box), told stockholders that sales were seriously down, but noted that higher production by other G.M. divisions-notably Electro-Motive diesel and Allison aircraft en gines-would take up some of the slack...
...Colombo, Ceylon, workers had rushed to install a $1,500,000 diesel generator to handle the extra current needed for the strings of lights festooning almost every building, and some 50 flat-bed trucks were converted into illuminated floats depicting scenes from Buddha's life-a blazing caravan that will tour the entire island. In Kandy, famed as the site of a temple containing Buddha's tooth, a parade of elephants will carry the tooth, in its casket, through the town, and thousands of beggars will be fed and clothed in honor of the occasion...