Word: diesel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just in case all else fails, Savannah will be equipped with a small auxiliary diesel "take-home" engine...
Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president...
...Avenue apartment is rich with a Rouault, a Dufy, two Renoirs, two Vlamincks; his Washington office is studded with hi-fi and Queen Anne furniture. Chalk commutes between the two places in his telephone-equipped cars (black Cadillac, white Continental), on off hours retires to his 83-ft., twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels, blue shirts with pleats. Superstitious and a gambler, he enjoys chemin de fer and craps, jokingly...
...companies are operating out of Nassau suitcases. The Bethlehem Steel Corp. lurks behind a mahogany shingle reading, "The Registered Office of Bethlehem Steel Co. Limited, Overseas Underwriters Limited." Similar shingles hang outside Nassau offices of outfits such as Crucible Steel, U.S. Steel (which calls itself Navios), Whirlpool, Cummins Diesel, RCA, J. I. Case (agricultural equipment) and Grant Advertising. Outboard Marine International (Evinrude and Johnson outboard motors) has a staff of 55, including U.S. citizens, Englishmen, Canadians and a handful of Bahamian Comptometer operators. In air-conditioned comfort behind a Bay Street brass plate, Outboard Representative James Butler says...
...Communist Europe (TIME, Dec. 8), it has now been tapped as "coordinator" of all bloc chemical production, responsible for boosting the area's chemical output fivefold by 1965. An array of interlocking agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the other satellites assigns East Germany responsibility for large deliveries of diesel and electric motors, power-station equipment and motor vehicles in exchange for raw materials...