Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steam from an exploding locomotive had scalded Fireman Frank Mihlan of the Erie Railroad. When he was carried into Cleveland's Charity Hospital on July 15, doctors thought that he had little chance of living: 70% of his body was burned. Erie Surgeons decided to try something new. They wrapped the patient in bandages made from paper-thin strips of aluminum foil, developed by Toronto's Dr. Alfred W. Farmer. It was the first time aluminum foil for burns had been used in the U.S., the first time it had ever been used for burns of the whole...
...Locomotive Co. had dozed at the switch. Once it made nearly half of all U.S. locomotives, but in the last five years its share of business has dropped to less than 10%. Unwilling to concede that diesels were revolutionizing the locomotive business (TIME, Dec. 29), Baldwin concentrated on making steam engines while such upstarts as General Motors' Electro-Motive Division grabbed the lion's share of new orders...
...Baldwin, just as General Electric had with American Locomotive Co. (Westinghouse made the electrical transformers and motors for such diesels as Baldwin built.) But American Locomotive, foreseeing the diesel revolution, spent $20 million on five war surplus plants and converted completely to diesel manufacture. (It rolled out its last steam locomotive in June.) By the end of 1947 American Locomotive had almost caught up with...
...take a chance on the big, fast ships which they need to compete on the North Atlantic and the U.S. needs for defense purposes (i.e., military transports). Last week, with the Navy offering to chip in, it looked as if the shipping program was finally ready to get up steam...
...Black Queen. The queen of this new fleet, a 48,000-ton superliner, will give U.S. Lines something to brag about. Designed by Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, No. 1 ship architects for the Navy, the ship has a high pressure steam power plant similar to that used in World War II's destroyers and cruisers. Though smaller than prewar liner plants, it is much more efficient, and will give the superliner a top speed of over 33 knots, enough to bring the transatlantic record to the U.S. for the first time. Though the ship will have little more...