Word: diesel
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...effective. Trucks can always drive around craters, and there has been a marked increase of truck traffic in the North-perhaps at the expense of transportation of supplies to troops in the South. Swedish journalists who have visited North Viet Nam report that the country has numerous small diesel generators to make up for the loss of power plants. One State Department expert has calculated that there are 22 ways to get supplies across a bridgeless river -from small boats to flotation collars to pontoon bridges...
...most sweeping antipollution law ever submitted to a statewide vote. If put into effect, the 23-part measure would ban new coastal oil drilling, impose a five-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, outlaw DDT and other "hard" pesticides, sharply reduce the sulfur content in diesel fuel and phase out all lead additives in gasoline. It would impose harsh fines on air polluters-.4% of their gross annual incomes daily. It would also bar from environmental-control boards anyone with a financial interest in any automotive or petroleum companies or in any firm that pollutes...
...representing engineers, brakemen, firemen and conductors, is planning to strike Penn Central in June, when a Government-imposed cooling-off period expires. Seventy-year-old work rules force railroads to pay train crews a full day's wages for every 100 miles traveled -a distance that the fastest diesel locomotives cover in two hours. Some states require trains to carry "full" five-man crews. Says Alan Boyd, former Transportation Secretary and now head of the Illinois Central: "We know we can run a safe train with...
While Cloud in Saigon followed the military situation throughout Viet Nam, Rauch headed upcountry to I Corps, where the fighting had begun. "It has been a jumble of airfields and highways," Rauch reports, "on which you wait while a gentle rain of JP4 or diesel fuel sifts endlessly down, and you are told there are no flights anywhere or the road is closed." Once he had to hitch a ride on a Vietnamese air force plane evacuating wounded marines from Phu Bai. Despite these difficulties,Rauch managed three trips into Hue and a visit to Danang to interview U.S. pilots...
...tradition flourishes today at many levels. It has been computed, for example, that the offspring of 450 moths can eat the weight of a diesel locomotive in one year. And that the average housewife washes 2.5 million kitchen utensils during her lifetime, the equivalent of a stack of dishes 70 times as high as the Empire State Building. And that 9.2 billion strokes of a cat's back would generate enough electricity to light a 75-watt bulb for exactly one minute...