Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home from a costly education and a trip abroad. At San Antonio she found the Daughters of the Republic of Texas floundering in a $75,000 campaign to save the Alamo. (Its courtyard was up for sale as a hotel site.) Clara Driscoll appeared before the startled legislature at Austin, vainly heckled its members, finally rescued Texas' shrine with her own $65,000 check...
...first postwar car to go on sale in the U.S. arrived in New York by ship this week. It was a small, British-built, ten-horsepower Austin sedan. It was also the first evidence that Britain is in a hurry to carry out her export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never...
...Detroit's motormakers are not wor ried. The U.S. has never cared much for Austin-sized cars; nor will it like the price, upwards of $1,200. But U.S. Distributer John Lawrence Green is optimistic, eventually hopes to sell 25,000 Austins a year...
Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...