Word: dieselization
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Before long, heavy goods represented 60% of all output. New steel mills grew up everywhere, but they depended on Soviet mines for half their ore. In turn, the steel was hammered into diesel locomotives and river barges that were then exported to Russia-even though the Czechs' own railroads and river fleets were antiquated. Increased costs forced planners to forgo reinvestment and research. The demand for factory labor trimmed the country's farm population from 3,300,000 to 1,300,000, often left the farms to be run by women, and helped sow the seeds for chronic...
BEAR WITH us. With that, work lights burst into brilliant glare, diesel compressors roar into life, air hammers rip into the pavement, and dust begins to rise. Comes the dawn. Trucks rumble up loaded with thick lengths of timber. Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward...
Perhaps as one concession to his convalescence, he did not travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled...
...steel company before he and Widow Amelie Thyssen, his principal stockholder, split in a disagreement over policy. With the $600,000 settlement that he received after resigning, Goergen bought into Henschel, a once mighty steam-locomotive maker in Kassel that had sagged into receivership because it had underestimated the diesel locomotive...
Bertram entries in last week's race included Lucky Moppie, his own 31-footer, equipped with twin 380-h.p. Daytona Marine engines; Vivacity, a 38-ft., diesel-powered Bertram owned by British Newspaper Publisher Max Aitken; and Rum Runner, a 31-ft. bomb, driven by Florida's Harold Abbott, whose twin 521-h.p. Holman-Moody Ford engines made it the most powerful boat in the race. For competition, there were 32 other boats. General Motors pinned its hopes on Allied 36 and Allied GX, a pair of 40-ft. monsters powered by twin 315-h.p. G.M. diesels. From...