Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1939, when pioneer Alaskan capitalist Austin Eugene ("Cap") Lathrop organized his Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co. (TIME, June 12, 1939), KFAR has done one of radio's outstanding jobs. To remote Alaska, it has brought news from the outside, glamorized news from the inside. It has also presented one of the best entertainment schedules heard on the continent. By using commercial-free Armed Forces Radio Service records, KFAR offers the pick of U.S. fare without plug-uglies. Its record library gives Alaskans the music they like best: symphonies and operatic arias. Most popular non-musical program: Tundra Topics, full...
...over the nation there was now little hesitancy-from sellers & buyers alike-in flouting the laws. In the South and Southwest it was lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
Britain's Minister of Fuel, dour Emanuel Shinwell, balefully noted that some capitalists were lifting up their heads again. Austin Motors' Leonard P. Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...
...years-like the old days, more than 30 years ago, when she was America's frivolous "operatic sweetheart" and sang Mimi and Melisande in almost every major U.S. opera house. In 1937, when she returned to the U.S., concert and opera managers snubbed her. Last year Concert Manager Austin Wilder brought her to New York, discovered that he had the biggest box-office attraction in Town Hall's 25 years. After her first concert a critic wrote: "A Sinatra demonstration at the Paramount is a feeble thing indeed...
...football windup-the 11th Airborne Angels v. the Honolulu All-Stars-a dead-eye quarterback named Mel Malloy (from Chicago's Austin High) stole the show. In a drizzling rain he pitched two touchdown passes for the triumph (18-0) over the Jock Sutherland-coached Honolulu eleven...