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...Diesel power (hitherto a luxury of heavy duty trucking), for 1½ to 3-ton trucks. Main advantages of Diesel power are that it needs no carburetion, no spark plugs, no electric ignition system (sources of 90% of gasoline motor troubles), gets more power and mileage out of low-grade cheap fuel oil than gasoline motors get out of premium gasoline...
...Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...
...town was railroadish. It was a division point on a large system, and the train-smell and train-noise filled the air constantly. Petit Vag used to watch the heavy freights groan out of the yards, shout defiance to nature and the elements, and attack the mountain grades--and many times his heart rode the cowcatcher of a mighty 16-driver Mallet engine, or nestled in the cupola of a caboose. Every night at 8.30 he lay in his bed and slept not until he heard the roaring exhaust of the Limited as it snatched its Pullmans westward...
...conductor lit a pipe. "Both sides passed out uniformly bad cigars this year, and neither party commits itself on the question of Grade B motion pictures. What Boston needs is a five cent fare or a fire." Seeing this line of questioning was getting me nowheres, I lowered my voice...
...elementary and advanced courses arises from the fact that the former usually have to assign essays in addition to hour exams, whereas the latter can and should substitute papers in the place of these exams. Certainly the only excuse for "hour troubles" is the necessity for a half-semester grade for Freshmen, since an essay on a small subject would be an incomplete test. And yet a great many advanced courses have hour-exams which are merely an unnecessary check-up at a time when an essay would determine the student's real ability much more clearly. There are, however...