Word: dieselization
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...boss went 60-year-old President Ralph Kelly. In as executive vice president and operating boss went Westinghouse's longtime chief engineer, Texas-born Marvin W. Smith, 54. Smith's big job is to put Baldwin back into the running for a share of the booming diesel-electric locomotive market...
...little burros were beginning to be pushed aside. It had reared a whole new generation of modern buildings in the capital, including a race course and two new bull rings. It had started new industries. It had put 8,000 tractors in Mexico's fields and 100 new diesel locomotives on her tracks. It had given rich Mexicans nylon stockings, electric refrigerators, radios, and 1,000 other luxuries. It had given Mexico a taste of a whole new way of living...
...Haven, Whittemore will have a road to run on which steam is already up. Palmer did a good job guiding the road through a twelve-year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...
...power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...
...Railroads were buying more diesel locomotives than any other type. The nation's total diesel capacity has increased from 19.9 million horsepower in 1941 to 51.2 million last year...