Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bought for $150,000 by the U. S. Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...
...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...lowest-priced Cadillac in history), designed to replace the discontinued La Salle. Others range up to the Fleetwood seven-passenger formal sedan at $4,045. Custom-built types are still higher. Big Cadillacs bear big square grilles which make the business end look like a Union Pacific Diesel locomotive...
...carbohydrates (com posed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) whereas oil is mostly hydrocarbons (composed of carbon and hydrogen only). Chemically these two great classes of compounds behave very differently. But economically the really important difference between wood and oil is that wood-burning locomotives are obsolete, whereas oil-burning Diesel trains are the height of modernity...
...General Motors, which just received an $81,319,872.19 machine-gun & equipment order (to be filled at four of its accessories plants), also put its La Grange (Ill.) Diesel locomotive plant on a 24-hour basis to handle an Atlantic Coast Line order for 18 heavy Diesels-the largest single locomotive order ever placed...