Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, is caused by no lack of affection. The script is a sound piece of work, and Director Delmar Daves has generally made the most of it, and the most of some heart-catching country in Wyoming. What is wrong is the attempt to hitch a buckboard to a diesel. City thoughts from the 20th century keep popping out of these hayseed heads like fireplugs out of the prairie; and toward the climax, when Borgnine goes berserk with jealousy, the moviegoer may get a weird sensation that he is watching a production of Othello in ranch pants...
...built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused its decision on account of "the heavy winter," may wait for a while because of its recent difficulty with the Budd RDC's, single-unit, diesel cars...
Antitrust officials are worried about more than G.M.'s dominance in the auto market; G.M. last year built 43% of all trucks sold in the U.S., has built 60% of all the diesel locomotives in service. It is the world's largest overall producer of diesel engines; G.M.'s Frigidaire is the biggest maker of refrigerators. Last week the Justice Department said that it was mulling over the filing of an antitrust suit to force G.M. to get rid of its bus-building division, which has increased its share of the market from 28% to nearly...
...House Ways and Means Committee, in approving a money-raising section of the vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
...four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings." But had not he once described the old B-29 in similarly glowing terms? "Sure-and I meant every adjective. And when they give me the next plane, I'll get even more excited. That...