Word: dieselization
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...fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered. . . . But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase" (TIME, Dec. 9). Watt are you talking about? Ampère would feel complimented. Is it not well-established English orthography to lower-case such pioneers? Rudolf Diesel devised, in fact, such a unique power plant that it seems almost redundant nowadays to append to diesel, fully self-explanatory, the generic term engine...
...Southern Railway streamliner, to begin operating this spring from Memphis to Washington, will be steam instead of Diesel drawn between Lynchburg and Bristol, Va. Reason: between those points it will use the right of way of Norfolk & Western, which gets 80% of its freight business from hauling coal and refuses to allow a Diesel on its tracks...
...handed Texan who struck it rich in his early 205, built a sowell oil business and a drillers' equipment company in Dallas. In 1929, a bright young Austrian named F. A. Thaheld (now Guiberson's chief design engineer) presented him with a new design for a Diesel airplane engine. Guiberson sank $1,500,000 in it, has been trying to sell it for airplane use ever since. To his bankers, willing to back him in oil, lis engine was just a crackpot scheme.' Once, when he borrowed $2,500,000 for his oil business, they made...
...enough for me. All the money I ever made, I made gambling. In the oil business, nobody ever saw his profit in the bank when he started to drill. I'll take a chance on this one and see if I can get the Army to put my Diesel into ipo or so tanks. I don't care' how the tax bill ends up because it's a cinch that in six months the Army will want more than 100 tank engines, and I will be in production, with a head start...
...Guiberson had the head start he wanted. Tank talk was turning to Diesels. The British Army, having gone into production on a 350-h.p. gasoline engine, was already designing a Diesel to replace it. Encouraged by such talk, S. A. Guiberson had Inventor Thaheld at work in Dallas on a bigger Diesel for heavy tanks...