Word: dieselization
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...roundup were 70 pieces of heavy machinery, 29 of them completely new. They were the latest evidence that machines for construction work and farms have become so specialized that there is a different one for almost every job. Star of the show was a new 200 h.p. diesel crawler tractor with torque converter, only tractor in the world that can turn with power on both tracks (price: $30,000). Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load...
...business blocks; Dumaine money built a $50 million marketing center in congested Boston near the South Station that draws some $200 million yearly in various businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million, the New Haven has been completely dieselized and electrified, now has some 1,300 new units, including 40 self-propelled Budd cars (the largest U.S. fleet), 362 new diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars...
...precisely 9:32 p.m., sometimes a few seconds later, the gentle tones of a battery of diesel locomotive horns waft among the grinding multitude, and a tall man strides through blowing taps between two blades of grass. He's pretty good. As you walk out the door a girl frisks you with her eyes, to see if you're stealing any books. They've got to be careful; one guy last year started sewing pages of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in his topcoat lining, and he had sent the first volume to the bindery and was half way through...
Exhaust Defumer. A chimney device that eliminates chemicals and noxious fumes from the smoke of industrial plants has been adapted for use on diesel trucks and buses by Oxy-Catalyst Manufacturing Co. (TIME, June 9, 1952). Called the "oxycat," it consists of a series of alumina and platinum alloy-coated porcelain rods. The company plans a similar unit for cars...
...swing to diesels on U.S. railroads is still picking up speed. Union Pacific, already 60% dieselized, placed a $35 million order with General Motors for 205 more engines (190 freight, 15 passenger units) to be delivered in 1954, thus give the road 100% diesel through service along its main line from Omaha to the West Coast...