Word: dieselization
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...Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being a middleman, he branched out into large-scale smuggling. Han's fleet of speedboats, powered by salvaged aircraft engines and diesel tank motors, easily outdistanced coast guard patrol boats on the short, 40-mile run between South Korean landing coves and the Japanese island of Tsushima; on land, Han's Jeep convoys loaded with booty defiantly traveled without license plates and with their own armed guard. It was a profitable...
Heineman's new expressway is the Chicago River, which passes within half a block of the station. Commandeering a pair of sightseeing cruisers, the Wendella and the Sunliner, Heineman last week launched a diesel-powered gondola service which takes commuters to North Michigan Boulevard in seven minutes. The cruisers run every 15 minutes during rush hours, operate on hourly schedules the rest of the day, charge 25? a trip-about one-third the fare in a taxi...
...English invented railways, and have never quite recovered from the pride and guilt of their creation. Nowhere else on earth does rundown rolling stock excite such tantrums or such tenderness. Britons venerate the shabby Victorian discomfort of antiquated first-class carriages; they despair if the diesel hauling them pants into a station 40 seconds late. When a moneylosing branch line closes down, the island is roiled with grief. Cried the headline over a lengthy London Times story last year: THE TIDDLYDIKE BRANCH LINE DIES TODAY. Sorrow had hardly faded before British Railways raised fares to pay for other uneconomical Tiddlydikes...
...executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau took over in 1956, Volvo production has climbed from 36,766 cars to last year's 78,527-and the company now does almost as much business in diesel trucks, jet and marine engines as in autos...
Last week a band of oilmen said that they will build the biggest line of them all: a yard-wide pipe that, when it is completed late next year, will pump gasoline, kerosene, furnace oil and diesel fuel over 1,600 miles from Houston to New York's Staten Island and to 1,000 miles of spur lines in between. The $350 million pipe, biggest privately financed construction job in history, will be bankrolled by nine oil majors. They are: American Oil, Cities Service, Continental, Gulf, Phillips, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Socony Mobil and Texaco...