Word: dieselization
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Early next morning, five miles from Newcomerstown, Ohio, trouble developed in the air brake system. In a murky fog, the troop train ground to a stop. Out of the early morning roared the Pennsylvania's crack twin diesel Spirit of St. Louis. The first unit of the diesel hurled the rear coach of the troop train in the air, sheared the second car to floor level, hurtled into a creek. The second unit derailed a third car. Two cars of the Spirit of St. Louis plunged from the track...
...shopping list are: 1) tractors and farm machinery to help boost the nation's agricultural output, 2) bulldozers and other heavy earth-moving equipment for power projects, to increase generating capacity from the present 2,100,000 kilowatts to 5,600,000 kilowatts in 1958, 3) diesel-electric locomotives, 4) heavy excavators, stripping shovels and other mechanized mining equipment, to raise the production of steel, building materials and coal. To get more workers, Australia, which is now squeezed by a manpower shortage, is opening her gates to 200,000 immigrants a year (3½% of its population...
...home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
...Capitan began sliding ahead of the Chief, crewmen on its big diesel heard "something dragging" underneath the mail coach-a brake rigging had broken and dropped to the ties. An instant later, the mail coach lurched off the rails, derailing the Capitan's passenger coaches behind it. Car 2918, El Capitan's middle coach, hurtled off the tracks and sideswiped the Chiefs locomotive, knocking it off the rails into the light brush along the right of way; the Chief's passenger cars jolted, but stayed on the track...
...Higher pay. 2. Larger old-age pensions. 3. Another fireman on diesel engines. 4. Higher accident insurance. 5. Longer vacations...