Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dplus6 a heavy truck rolled onto the beachhead. Next day its diesel engine kicked over, a generator hummed, and the first direct press message from France was on its way to the U.S. By last week Press Wireless, Inc. was delivering copy in New York about 20 minutes after invasion correspondents had filed it. It was the first time on any front that U.S. war correspondents could communicate directly with their home offices from immediately behind a battle line. There was also a receiving set: newsmen could be paged on the beachhead...
Irrepressible, indefatigable Henry J. Kaiser is fixing to cop the first postwar contract in the shipbuilding industry. The contract: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade. The production schedule: building to begin "long before" year's end. Henry and the Dutch, equally shrewd, figured the ships could be used for war cargoes before the Jap is licked, and certainly right after he is thrown out of the Indies...
Flood from the West. Made-in-America supplies were still rolling into England last week. At one medium-sized port, U.S. troops and British civilian workers swarmed aboard cargo ships, unloaded tanks, jeeps, guns; unloaded and assembled 65-ton diesel locomotives, 300-ton floating cranes; attached wheels and accessory equipment to scores of tank cars...
...body that is best of all. Next best, a bit of wreckage. If there are no bodies, and no wreckage, and there is a little oil on the surface, you bottle some of the oil, take it home, and they either prove it is diesel fuel or say it is something else. We couldn't get any evidence. But we got credit for the sinking and I collected a D.S.O. That is the standard payment for a submarine; a friend of mine has three...
...presidency for only one year (1918-19). In 1904 he started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard for his master's papers, and could legally have skippered a Queen Mary in any ocean...