Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth--Saxton, g; Fancher, rfb; Dore, lfb; Austin, rhb; Hart, chb; Estranda, lhb; Tompson, or; Leshure, ir; Hopkins, cf; Scully, il; Clarif...
...spectacular moments are provided by a running noose-and-lariat battle between an enraged rhinoceros and members of the expedition mounted in a truck. At one point the rhino gets the upper hand; charging the truck, he topples it over on its side as if it were a baby Austin. Another highlight: a series of submarine close-ups of gigantic hippos lolling on the sandy bottom of a transparent pool. Weirdest animal is the aardvark, which has a squawk like a maddened calliope and the look of a dispirited rabbit sired by an anteater...
Smiling Vagrants. The peace-pact talk, as the U.S.'s Warren Austin pointed out bitterly, was window-dressing: Moscow had spurned the U.S. offer for such a pact over Germany three years ago. The atomic-ban talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck...
...some British salesmen in the U.S. found that business boomed as soon as prices were cut. Britain's Drake America Corp. slashed men's Argyle socks 22%, cashmere sweaters 20%, and most other goods accordingly. In two days, it booked $1,250,000 worth of orders. Austin Motors Co. Ltd., which had slashed its prices from 11 to 15%, sold out its entire U.S. stock of 1,000 cars in the first two days after devaluation, promptly ordered 500 more. But such price cuts seemed likely to last only in those British goods, such as autos, which...
...importers of British raw materials and goods cheered the devaluation of the British pound to $2.80 (see INTERNATIONAL). Prices of British goods in the U.S. had been far too high; now they began to tumble. Fergus Motors, a Manhattan importer of British cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped...