Word: dieselization
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...Eagle of Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...
...under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country." Although it should be able to make no m.p.h., Union Pacific will not permit it to exceed 90 m.p.h.. which...
While the Besler flight was regarded as a significant as well as an historic experiment, few observers were prepared to guess whether the steam-engine idea will get farther than the Diesel, which has yet to be accepted by aviation...
Reasons for a renaissance of interest in steam are the same as motivated the development of Diesel engines for airplanes: elimination of fire hazard by use of crude oil; elimination of ignition and hence of radio interference; simplification of mechanism; economy. Also the steam engine offers reduction of noise, of vibration, of complicated lubrication...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...