Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, continued U.S. aid to China forced Japan on the defensive. With war in Europe came allied blockades, embargos, encirclement. Japan's access to food, rubber, oil, was threatened. Still, "we did not anticipate . . . that America [would] . . . force Japan to make the first overt act." There had never been a conspiracy among Japanese leaders to make war. "I fail utterly to understand . . . this fantastic accusation...
...tugboat Sprague, known for 45 years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...
...locomotives. They were all diesels-in of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet revolution which has been going on in the Central-and many another U.S. railroad -since war's end. The revolt is against steam locomotives in favor of oil-burning diesels. Of the 1,176 locomotives which U.S. railroads had on order Dec. 1, only 33 were steam. The rest were diesels...
...till the war did G.M.'s experiment pay off. The Army gave G.M. big orders for diesels for overseas work (where there was more oil than coal). On the other hand, the Government restricted the old-line companies, American and Baldwin, to making war equipment for the military, and steam locomotives for U.S. railroads. Thus, war's end found G.M. well ahead in diesels. Of some 5,000 diesel units now in service, two-thirds have been built by G.M. Into the once staid locomotive industry, G.M. has also breathed some of the dog-eat-dog competitive spirit...
...Young aide snapped: "Never, I hope." With his new coal-burning steam turbine "500" locomotive, now touring the country, Bob Young hopes to prove that he has something better than a diesel. His engine is closer to the next development which he thinks will crowd out the diesels-the oil-or coal-burning gas turbine locomotives...