Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reshaping the foreign-policy plank, the Governors had the help of such able men as Vermont's greying Senator Warren Austin and New Jersey's snow-haired Representative Charles Eaton. They forced adoption of a plank far more specific than , any of them had, as individuals, hoped for. On the record, G.O.P. now favors...
...best of these war babies is the Carnation Lumber Supply Co. in Carnation (pop. 400), in Washington's Snoqualmie Valley, some 35 miles from Seattle. Father of the baby is chunky, inventive Claire W. Austin, 34. In the spring of '42, he quit his carpenter's job in Seattle's Grandy Shipyards after he got a $35 Army order for wooden letter trays. Soon he landed a bigger order for a desk he designed. He also designed special jigs and fixtures, so that beginners could turn out good cabinet work...
Shortly, the Carnation Co. was grossing $8,000 monthly on desks and office tables. Later, Austin designed a wooden filing cabinet whose drawers actually slide smoothly. His simple secret: when resinous pine is rubbed against a hard wood, both become slippery and glass-smooth, slide more easily the more they are rubbed. Orders for 1,700 poured in, have kept the Carnation Co. hustling as it supplied a good chunk of the requirements of the Army and Boeing Aircraft in Seattle...
Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Taylor, lately of Hollywood, helped open a War Bond drive in Austin, Tex. He spoke to a stadiumful, was immediately followed by Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who spoke to half a stadiumful...
...this fails, the Administration has its Big Stick left: a labor draft such as proposed by the Austin-Wadsworth National Service...