Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal pier last week lay the 6,100-ton Radnik, a former U.S. troopship now owned by the Yugoslav Government. Her holds were being filled with Canadian machinery, including $330,000 worth of mining equipment, $182,000 worth of diesel engines and fishing gear. Her human cargo was waiting in tourist camps at suburban La Salle. They were 500 Yugoslavs who have had enough of Canada and want to return to their native land. Of an estimated 21,000 Yugoslavs in the Dominion, about 1,500 have signed up to go home...
Perhaps nowhere else in the world could U.S. traders find so much ready cash. Argentina wanted iron, steel, automobiles, wood products, fuels, textiles, and diesel locomotives-and only the U.S. could supply them. U.S. sales had rocketed to $166,000,000 last year, four times as high as in 1945. No figures were out for this year's first quarter, but B.A. experts reckoned that 1947 U.S. sales would zoom a further...
...Among the I.A.C.C. experts are Engineers L. F. Harza and Theodore Knappen, who once worked for Standard Oil, and New Deal Economists Lauchlin Currie and Robert Nathan. The first fruits of the mission's counsel were announced last week: the purchase by the Argentine state railways of 90 diesel-electric locomotives for $20 million. Said Peron of the new technical collaboration: "This is a great historical event." It was the first time that such a gigantic project had been entrusted by Argentina...
Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...
Alfred Wiley was back at work in a diesel locomotive plant when he heard the fearful news. Frantically he borrowed a car, raced 28 miles to Naperville. First he went to the bloody emergency stations and a hospital teeming with injured. They weren't there. Then he went to Naperville's three mortuaries. Nothing at the first or second. At the third he found the bodies of his wife and two children...