Word: dieselization
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...Asked Standard Oil of Ohio to postpone a proposed ½?-a-gal. rise in Diesel, tractor and furnace oil prices...
...Southeast's railroads, at suggestion of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, will even lend TVA Diesel locomotives if they prove a useful substitute for water power. Olds's estimate of how much of the shortage this scheme will meet: more than 500,000 kilowatts...
...main reason for the big poundage rise is heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...
Walter P. Reuther, director of the union's G-M department, said the strike call would not affect workers among the plant's 160,000 employees who are actively engaged on the company's contracts for airplane engines, trucks, aircraft sub-assemblies, Diesel engines, machine guns, shells, and other defense work...
...TIME'S intention was not to criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...