Word: dieselization
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Founded in 1891, Carborundum, which has 85 plants in 24 countries, produces more than 2,000 industrial products ranging from air filters to diesel engine camshafts. It has, along with the Norton Co., a leading position in abrasives-grinding materials essential for all elements of the metal-bending business. The company has great hopes for experiments now being conducted in its new laboratory near Niagara Falls, where it hopes to produce materials that will replace the rare metals that endure high temperatures in turbines and jet engines...
...thousands of troops marching to the music of 750 massed musicians, the audience, which included military attaches of Western embassies, was treated to the first public display of the Red Army's formidable new T-72 tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra-red and laser range-finding system for accurate fire...
Meanwhile, inflation has relentlessly pushed up the prices that farmers must pay for machinery, energy and fertilizer. Farm production costs have jumped in ten years from $37 billion to almost $82 billion. A tractor that cost $9,000 in 1966 sells for $32,000 today; the diesel fuel to run it has climbed from 16.20 per gal. to 44.90. According to the Agriculture Department, though farmers' gross income is expected to surpass last year's record high of $103.5 billion, their net income will drop to an estimated $20.1 billion, from $22 billion a year...
...challenge of building a new, multiracial Zimbabwe; on the contrary, they seem to relish the fading trappings of white supremacy. Says a recently arrived young Englishman: "I'm sick of the situation in Britain, the unions, the high taxes, the lack of opportunity." William McBurnie, 32, a diesel fitter from the Protestant town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland, began work last week in Bindura, a farming community 40 miles from Salisbury. "I have a great respect for [Prime Minister] Ian Smith and the way the government stands up for the army and the Europeans here," he says. "The soldier...
...diesel engines needed to produce electricity will also be sources of nitrogen dioxide, and unless Harvard representatives can show that the plant will not add excessively to the atmospheric level of the gas in the area, the environmental quality department will probably require elimination of the diesel generators from the project, entailing a major redesign...