Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arctic Revolution. The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran...
Massey-Ferguson is now working to acquire the tractor plant of England's Standard Motor Co. Ltd., and the diesel engine facilities of England's F. Perkins Ltd. The firm has expanded its operations in France, doubling its stockholdings in Standard-Hotchkiss, a French tractor maker, to 50%. But energetic Al Thornbrough still looks to the U.S. for the even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor...
...TURBINE ENGINES will be sold by G.M.'s Allison Division for testing in trucks. Two of the biggest problems, high cost and fuel consumption, are almost whipped. Allison says high-power gas turbines now can be mass-produced "at a price no higher than for equivalent" gasoline or diesel engines, and that a big power plant, e.g., 500 h.p., turbine costs less to operate...
...East Germany the equivalent of nearly $200 million in economic aid next year, and have assigned the East Germans an industrial specialty: chemicals. The East Germans are under orders to exploit their only significant natural resource-lignite, or brown coal-as the wartime Nazis did, to make coke, gases, diesel oil and synthetic products in vastly increased quantities. Russia has promised to build a pipeline from Baku to East Germany to pump 5,000,000 tons of oil, with which a petrochemical industry based on the giant former I. G. Farben plants at Leuna, Halle and Bitterfeld can double East...
...pale dawn on Quemoy Island one day last week, the Red artillery barrage from the mainland just five miles away abruptly ended. On deserted Restoration Road in Quemoy City, the uneasy silence was pierced only by the cough of a diesel engine in the offices of the Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao (Righteous China Daily News), the island's only newspaper. All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power...