Word: austin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While U. S. automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
...Austin is a sort of British Ford. The Seven does not, of course, refer to cylinders but to horsepower. The Austin is only 9 ft. 2 in. long, 3 ft. 10 in. wide and weighs only 950 lbs. Production date and price have not been announced, but it is understood that the Austin will sell for less than $500. Financing of the U. S. company will be handled by Bulkley, Vallance & Co., of Manhattan...
...Austin represents the first serious foreign attempt at competing with the U. S. motor car. Said Samuel H. Vallance: "We are not proceeding with the theory that there is anything faulty with the American small cars. . . but in size and economy of operation the Austin Seven is in a class by itself...
...Monday morning the only grades ever made public in the Harvard Law School, the marks for all members of the graduating class, will be posted on the bulletin board in Austin Hall. The names are published in the form of a rank list...
...company charter, thus marking the passing of another (Seaboard) national bank. Merger terms specified exchange of 1 ½ shares of Equitable for one of Seaboard, the Seaboard share carrying with it a share of Seaboard National Corp., the bank's security affiliate. Seaboard's President Chellis A. Austin continues as president of the merged bank; Equitable's President Arthur W. Loasby becomes Board Chairman. Said the official statement: "logical alliance . . . substantially multiply measure of service." RKO-Proctor. "I am going to get right after this thing," said, last winter newly-elected Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp...