Word: dieselization
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...Evinrude and Johnson exhibited the first four-cylinder V-type outboards - 50-h.p. engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free of vibration. Scott-Atwater showed the first three-cylinder outboard, an in-line 60-h.p. model priced at $980. The first practical outboard diesel, which cuts the danger of fire, was exhibited by American M.A.R.C., a medium-weight (75-80 Ibs.), 7½-h.p. engine priced at about...
...joyfully inefficient and individualistic machine, had become the essence of what made the railroads pleasantly different from more modern forms of transportation. But since the war distressed fans have watched the roads transformed into just another mass-produced product of General Motors. Almost everywhere the nasal blat of diesel air horns has replaced the musical tones of multiple-chime steam whistles...
...COMMON MARKET will speed moves by U.S. companies to open subsidiaries on Continent, thus get in under tariff wall. Heading in that direction, Pittsburgh's fast-growing Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (1956 sales: $115 million) will buy West Germany's Ilo Works, continue to make Ilo's diesel and gasoline engines there and also turn out the valves, pipeline meters and power tools that Rockwell makes...
Hurtling into an S-curve at the bottom of the hill, the train came apart. The twin diesel locomotives rocketed on down the track, pulling the freight cars with them. Five cars plunged into a field; three others pounded one another to confused wreckage on the tracks. Another was derailed in a narrow cut. The toll: 178 dead and nearly 700 injured-biggest Western Hemisphere railroad death total since a Mexican train wreck killed approximately...
...waits on table for fellow Jesuits, he gets back to his desk. The day ends with a 10:15 visit to the chapel and a 10:30 lights-out. This schedule is relaxed slightly on weekends, when the general packs the omnipresent letters, plus a private secretary, into a diesel-engined black Mercedes, and heads for the Jesuit-owned Villa Cavallatti in the Alban Hills, where he tends a flower garden described by him as "a great love...