Word: dieselization
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...women's lib. They said she just wanted to juice up her master's thesis. But this woman was on welfare. She needed a job." Others are having better luck. In Seattle, an organization called Mechanica, which helps women find blue-collar jobs, has placed women as carpenters, machinists, diesel mechanics, laborers and truck drivers. One 24-year-old has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Antioch College but now works in Seattle as an auto mechanic, for $5.45 per hour, which, she says, "is better than being an unemployed psychologist...
Flood Ravines. The nearly 10,000 spectators are a largely blue-collar crowd from small Southwestern towns. Dressed in DIESEL POWER T shirts and Peterbilt trailer-truck caps, they revel in the dust and noise. For some, off-road racing is an egalitarian country gathering. "My husband is a mechanic and I'm just a small-town housewife," says Loretta Pipkin from El Centre, Calif. "But out here everyone is equal...
...Hotels. Some interesting deals are in the making. The Ford Motor Co. has been considering construction of a $60 million diesel-engine plant in Egypt, and eleven foreign companies, seven of them American, have been talking about some kind of partnership with Nasr, Egypt's No. 1 automaker. No fewer than 26 foreign oil companies are exploring the country; Cairo officials hope that Egypt will be producing a million barrels...
...build the 42,500-mile-long interstate highway system, now 85% complete, the fund has proved to be a financially irresistible force. It automatically receives some $4 billion every year from a federal gasoline tax of 40 per gal., plus another $2 billion from levies on diesel fuel, lubricating oil and other motoring necessities. By contrast, mass transit has always had to scramble for federal funds, gaining only in 1973 a secondary claim on money in the highway fund...
...small daily newspaper in rural Upstate New York when I met Robin Starling. He was only 13 but the most critical event of his entire life had already occurred. The event had taken place when he was 10. He had been sitting stop one of the powerful diesel engine tractors on his father's prosperous Lewis County dairy farm. The tractor lurched forward unexpectedly. The 80-pound boy fell off his makeshift seat and into the tangle of steel blades. It was a wonder he wasn't decapitated was the comment from the doctors who saved his life...