Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale, black-browed Harry Edwards plugged away. Firing political jobholders, he saved $45,507 in operating costs the first year. He laid 100,000 new crossties, rebuilt the locomotives, repaired the buildings, bought a new Diesel. Then he helped get the Hatteras Oil Co. to set up offices at Morehead City and start shipping its asphalt...
...Current collector brushes for generators which combine the conductivity of copper with the lubricating properties of graphite. > Metal filters, with perhaps 50% porosity, which can be used, for example, in cleaning diesel fuels...
...tubby Publisher Evans has a remarkable record for putting his projects across in a big way. At 19, Silliman Evans became managing editor of a temperance sheet, later worked for fabulous Texas Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...
...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...
...Southeast's railroads, at suggestion of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, will even lend TVA Diesel locomotives if they prove a useful substitute for water power. Olds's estimate of how much of the shortage this scheme will meet: more than 500,000 kilowatts...