Word: dieselized
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...Fiedler Skip-Stop Express vs. Keith "Diesel" Elias...
...tabloids quickly dubbed her "Moan-ica" and demanded, "Stop that grunt!" One writer, claiming to have monitored her with a "gruntometer," said the noises coming out of the 18-year-old registered 93 decibels, about what a diesel train would produce. The grunts emitted by Gabriela Sabatini and Jennifer Capriati were deemed dulcet whimpers compared with Monica's. Countered Seles: "I don't think I'm going to win a match because I'm grunting...
There were new clients coming onboard as well. Florida Power & Light funded the pilot plant on Butternut Street. GE placed an order for more than $60,000 worth of Otisca Fuel to run a 4,000-h.p. coal-powered diesel locomotive. Westinghouse was interested in coal-powered turbine engines. So was GM, which developed an experimental coal-powered Cadillac, dubbed the Coal-dorado, that ran on Otisca Fuel. Five big companies -- GE, Norfolk Southern Railway, Eastern Fuels, Westmoreland Coal and Zurn Industries -- jointly invested $8 million in Smith and Keller's little outfit. In November 1984 Smith took a flight...
...reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular -- but that is what leadership...
...Israeli court of having helped murder hundreds of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death-camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. There is considerable evidence that Buchanan may be right that Demjanjuk could not have been the mass murderer of Treblinka. But Buchanan has also claimed that diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody, much less 850,000 people at Treblinka; that the U.S. should not have apologized to France for protecting Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie; and that Arthur Rudolph, the ex-Nazi rocket scientist forced to leave the U.S. after the Justice Department...