Word: dieselization
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...railroads have fought what seemed to be a losing battle against union-imposed featherbedding. Then last year a 15-man presidential Railroad Commission recommended the elimination of some 60.000 railroad jobs, including more than 40,000 firemen who survive the era of steam and, at union demand, ride diesel cabs with little more to do than wave at kids along the right...
...featherbedding, make-work and unwork. In the nation's $80 billion construction industry, some painters will not use spray guns, some carpenters will not use certain power tools, others do not permit ladders to be brought to a job (they must be hammered together on the site). Railroad diesel locomotives still carry a useless "fireman." Says an International Harvester engineer in Milwaukee: "If you want to repair a machine, an electrician has to come and shut off the switch, a millwright loosens the nuts and bolts, a machine repairman will remove the pulley, the millwright removes the motor. Many...
...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...
...there were snags in the Europa Panzer scheme. The Germans, sold on the idea of a safer, cheaper multifuel engine, which works best on diesel oil, sniffed at the French motor design. And Bonn defense chiefs preferred a fast-firing British 105-mm. cannon that did not fit the chassis the French were talking about...
Fairbanks Whitney makes everything from sidearms to diesel engines, and includes among its 14 subsidiaries the well-known machinery maker Fairbanks, Morse. The company ended 1961 with an $83,000 loss on sales of $141 million, and for the first nine months of 1962 was another $1,000,000 in the red. Karr proved ineffective in dealing with the company's problems. He tried to make too many decisions himself, and in the factory he lacked the experience to give Fairbanks Whitney what it really needs: a top-to-bottom overhaul of its inefficient manufacturing and distribution. After...