Word: dieselization
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...five miles off the tiny Isles of Shoals, the Squalus, driving ahead on her Diesel engines, prepared to dive. Machinist's Mate Alfred G. Prien was at the controls...
...Manhattan with his mother, he stays over to see a show or two, any kind just so he's sure it's likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...
After dinner at 5:30 comes CCC's fun and education. Until taps at 10 p.m., four in ten CCCers take vocational instruction in everything from Diesel engine operation to drawing; three in ten study mathematics and other academic subjects. They also have organized sports, camp papers and CCC's weekly Happy Days, published in Washington, as well as other recreations common to young men who distinctly are neither uniformed angels nor devils...
Into Los Angeles' sunlit harbor one day last week wallowed the 156-foot three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story...
Further weight reductions are indicated in General Motors' development of a two-cycle Diesel, which completes the four stages of operation-intake, compression. combustion and exhaust-in each up-and-down stroke of the piston, thus making every piston stroke a power stroke whereas four-cycle motors waste a full, powerless stroke on exhaust and intake...