Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community activists in Brookline and Mission Hill aim their guns for another series of legal assaults on Harvard's $350-million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), the power plant's diesel electric generators are finally coming to life this spring for the first time in years. MATEP, designed to simultaneously produce steam, chilled water and electricity for hospitals in the Medical Area, has proved a costly 14-year headache for the University...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...more remarkable change occurred in the industrial city of Wuhan this month when West German Engineer Werner Gerich was appointed director of a diesel-engine factory. He was the first foreigner ever named to such a management job since the Communist victory in 1949. As a consultant to the Wuhan plant, the West German had so impressed officials with a detailed critique of the factory's shortcomings that they voted to make him the manager. Gerich has already begun to carry out his own suggestions, including a rule that forbids newspaper reading on the job. He is also seeking...
...American folk song Captain Olaf Kaldefoss does not have a mule to pull his boat through the Erie Canal. He has a pair of 25-year-old diesel engines, one of which has just been overhauled. But he is confident that they can move his craft, the 256-ft. M.V. Day Peckinpaugh, through the canal at a stately, steady speed of 8 m.p.h., and so is the ship's engineer, a compact, muscular fellow named Dan Sauvey. So, with the sun just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city...
...with MATEP, Harvard has spent seven years fighting in the courts, testing and retesting the diesel engines, and installing an elaborate air monitoring system--all of which have driven the plant's price tag up 500 percent. Every day the diesels remain idle, the hospitals lose money because the plant is not realizing the energy savings that would make it worthwhile...