Word: dieselization
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...Committee for Economic Development and many individual businessmen (plus the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. as well) fought to get it passed, and won. Bankers and contractors wanted a highway bill, but the truckers wanted a pay-as-you-ride compromise plan killed because it would have raised their gas, diesel and tire taxes $1 billion yearly. The small businessmen did all right: the Small Business Administration was extended for two years, and the Justice Department's recommendation (backed by big-city department stores and discount houses) to repeal Fair Trade laws was blocked...
...over the next 30 years by a $21 billion special bond issue ("Bonds for Boulevards," scoffed congressional Democrats). Then the House turned to the plan sponsored by its own Democratic leadership, under which $24 billion would have been spent in 13 years, financed by road-tax increases, on gasoline, diesel fuel, truck tires, etc. Against this bill stood the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and its network of state organizations. The A.T.A. threw only three lobbyists into the fight on Capitol Hill, but its state units had alerted individual trucking lines, large and small. From the truckers themselves came a storm...
...Israelis sent water-the most precious commodity in the Middle East-coursing into the parched southland. Before a happy crowd of 15,000 at Rosh Haayin, ten miles from modern Tel Aviv-Jaffa, old President Itzhak Ben-Zvi thanked God and pressed a lever. With a roar giant diesel pumps began to send water from the Yarkon River into a 66-in. pipeline that snakes toward the Negev plateau 65 miles away...
...After the war Silliman Jr. took over two smaller dailies then owned by the company; Both he and his brother are well aware that they must move fast to live up to their father, described in his early days as a Star-Telegram staffer as "the alltime, all-American diesel engine of Texas reporting...
...underbrush along the Georgia-Florida coastal area. The Tree Crasher, 39 ft. long and 11 ft. high, smashes through jungles on six huge rubber-tired wheels 4 ft. wide and 10 ft. tall, each powered by its own electric motor. The motors, in turn, are powered by two diesel generators near the center of the unit...