Word: dieselization
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...Ohio's Diesel-smooth Republican machine is reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...
...Chung's resourceful Physicist David Hsiung set up the only power plant within hundreds of miles by coaxing the engine of an old Studebaker bus to burn charcoal, a Diesel engine to run on walnut oil. The biology department began crossbreeding different varieties of Yunnan ducks to get a new, improved strain. While the college faculty was considering the best way to spread the Christian message in Hsichow (no missionary had ever worked there), a student quite independently set the ball rolling by converting two local schoolteachers. Hua Chung had no caps & gowns for its graduating class last July...
Bought for $150,000 by the U. S. Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...
...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...lowest-priced Cadillac in history), designed to replace the discontinued La Salle. Others range up to the Fleetwood seven-passenger formal sedan at $4,045. Custom-built types are still higher. Big Cadillacs bear big square grilles which make the business end look like a Union Pacific Diesel locomotive...