Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottleneck is trained industrial manpower. Russia lost millions of her best workers in the war, and the 5,000,000 or so German prisoners and draftees have the inadequacies of all slave labor. Said one disgruntled Soviet factory director: "When we brought a German who said he was a diesel specialist to a diesel engine that needed repair, he would then say he was a marine diesel specialist. . . . Phooey, they are useless...
...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
Outstanding feature of the new submarine was the underwater engine. It was an application of the Walther cycle engine, a new German device using hydrogen peroxide in place of gasoline or Diesel oil. Most apparent weakness: the high cost, in money and storage space, of hydrogen peroxide...
...quick succession he bought up several small orange-juice companies, started the California Seafood Co. (and put his father in as president), became principal owner of the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. When he got Hunt, he immediately expanded it by adding the dozen small food-packing plants he had cautiously bought up over a ten-year period. In this way he got expansion without the risk of launching new products...
...their passengers with new equipment was the $6 million, 60-car order which, last week, was ready for signing with the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. Three railroads (the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Western Pacific) plan to operate the new equipment in ten-car, diesel-powered daily streamliners be tween Chicago and San Francisco. The first of the new trains will go into service next summer...