Word: dieselization
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...bottled beer from spoiling, and thus was a jump ahead of most U.S. brewers, in national distribution. By 1901, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. was turning out more than 1,000,000 barrels a year. Adolphus also took some sidelines: he built the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, and brought the first diesel engine patents from Switzerland...
...bulldozers and diesel-engined tractors it expected to buy in the U.S. and Canada, Great Britain's Colonial Development Corp. last fall asked the World Bank for a $5,000,000 loan. C.D.C. officials, who considered that sum merely "the first bite of the cherry," indicated they might later ask the World Bank for as much as $100 million...
...Pennsylvania Railroad was making up for lost time. Though it was one of the last major U.S. railroads to dieselize, it was finally retiring steam locomotives at a fast clip and stepping up its purchase of diesel-electric equipment. Last week it took its biggest step yet: it ordered 226 locomotives, costing some $38 million, from six manufacturers.* The new order will give Pennsy the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad...
Bulldozers & Textiles. Persia will build or renovate 7,122 miles of roads, buying bulldozers, dump trucks, motor graders and portable rock crushers. Later, she will be in the market for other communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network...
...model is an illusion that can sell evening gowns, nylons and refrigerators. She can sell motorcars, bank loans and worthy causes. She can sell diesel engines, grapefruit and trips to foreign lands. She can sell everything from diapers to cemetery plots, aspirin to Zonite. She is a billion-dollar baby with a billion-dollar smile and a billion-dollar salesbook in her billion-dollar hand. She is the new goddess of plenty...