Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backbone of the Budd business is automotive, but that is relatively routine. The thing that stirs old Edward G. Budd and his veteran workmen in stainless steel is the sight of a gleaming new Diesel-powered (by G. M. C.'s Electro-Motive Corp.) streamline train rolling out of the yard to go into service on U. S. railroads. Last week, in the big, sprawling North Philadelphia plant, Budd workmen were finish ing up 50 streamline cars-for the Portuguese railway, Burlington, Santa Fe - and in the performance of streamliners already in service Budd could see the prospect...