Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listing of nominations for officers for the 1945-46 period shows little change over the slate of officers and directors for the recent fiscal year. Renominated to the presidency and vice-presidency are George E. Cole and Austin W. Scott, while Walter Humphreys and Horace S. Ford will continue their present duties as secretary and treasurer of the Coop...
Bombers to Beds. The famed Mosquito bomber plant had begun producing utility furniture for newlyweds. Austin and Morris, Britain's top two car makers, were pouring out a stream of shiny new automobiles. The Sunbeam Co. had started on three great fleets of busses for South Africa. Tractors and cars were to go to Turkey and the Middle East. Several aircraft plants had swiftly switched to making prefabricated houses and car parts. A sprawling airplane equipment factory in Speke was turning out children's pumps and women's corsets...
Last month, with London booksellers concurring, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, nominated Trollope for first place in wartime British reading popularity (Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters tied for second place, Dickens and Thackeray for third). Nostalgia for the days when English life could be portrayed as a comedy of manners was the general, if perhaps too simple, explanation...
...years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...
...American medical officer was making a quick survey of the sick and wounded, poking under filthy bandages with a bright pair of scissors; an enlisted man followed him with a medical kit, redressing wounds that needed immediate attention. Behind him walked a lean young captain, Austin Bach...