Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last few years it has built 27 terminals and spent $100 million for new buses, including some wide-bodied "supercruisers." A turbine-engine bus is scheduled to go into service on some routes next year. It will significantly cut noise and vibration, last twice as long as a diesel engine, and run without a cooling system, which overheats and now accounts for almost half of the engine failures...
...into their station wagon. Gregory shifted down and pulled into the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, a huge truck stop even for the big roads of the Midwest. Outside the Dixie, cattle on the way to market kicked the sides of their trailers, horses neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort...
...present, the Soviets produce 500,000 trucks per year, but 90% of these are light models of three-ton capacity or less. They badly need a modern plant such as the Kama River facility, which would turn out 150,000 huge diesel-driven trucks annually. They could also use an infusion of Western European skills to improve the engineering of their trucks, whose tendency to break down has long been a grim joke among the Russians...
...thing. In advance of the country's 22nd anniversary celebrations this week, the Defense Ministry unveiled three new and formidable Israeli-developed weapons systems: > An almost totally redesigned version of the U.S.-built M48 Patton tank, which now mounts a British 105-mm. cannon, is driven by a diesel instead of a gasoline engine, and may be the equal of Egypt's Soviet-supplied T-55s. > A 90-mm. antitank gun, mounted on a halftrack chassis and capable of traversing from side to side, which considerably increases desert firepower. > Most impressive of all, the ship-based Gabriel missile...
...intend during 1970 to offer a gas turbine. Our Detroit diesel engine division is going to build it. It will be intended for use as a heavy duty engine-a buses and trucks kind of operation to replace diesel. Because that is the kind of purpose that the gas turbine seems able to fulfill. The gas turbine has severe limitations...