Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wittiamsburg is a 14-year-old, twin-screw, diesel-powered ocean yacht once known as the Aras and owned by Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free...
...half as fast under water as on it. The Germans reversed this ratio by beefing up the electric batteries which power a submarine when submerged. Model 21 rarely had to surface because it used the "Schnorkel," an extendable air pipe which enables a submarine to recharge the batteries by diesel while submerged (TIME, Feb. 19). In one 45-day patrol, Model 21 U-boat spent all but four days under water. Only drawback: cooped-up living conditions. Some 116 of the formidable Model 21s were built, but minor defects kept them from going to sea on real war patrols...
...Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...
...Paris last week, the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission issued its first two catalogues, which offered to transplanted Americans (and secondly to Europeans) $11,500,000 worth of everything from aspirin to three-ton Diesel cranes. First taker: the Belgian Government, which got 300 automobiles and 125 tons of steel rods...
...travelers who like to watch the country go by, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad announced a new "Vista Dome" car, to be put into operation next week on its diesel-powered "Zephyrs," running from Chicago to the Twin Cities, Denver and the West...