Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts of Jeepery. Neither Willys nor Bantam created and developed the jeep by themselves. Bulk of this honor should rightfully go to the Army. Interested in developing a small car to replace motorcycles for reconnaissance, the Army purchased an Austin car to experiment with in 1933, continued experiments with a Bantam. Having determined that it wanted a 1,300-lb. car, the Army sent specifications to 135 manufacturers. Bantam and Willys were the only two who answered, and Bantam received an order for 70 vehicles. The cars were promising but too light, so the Army increased the weight to about...
...Hayward, Jr., Brooks Nye Heath, Nelson Fischer Hermance, Jr., Harry Lindley Hosford, Jr., Richard Farnsworth Hunnewell, Paul James Kirby, Robert Galen Knight, Francis Edward Lawlor, George Knowlton Lewis, Gustaf Berg Lindquist, Stuart McCarty, Joseph Berard McGrath, Charles Fessenden Morse, 3d., George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips...
Malcohn Bersohn (Biology), Robert Budd Betts, Harold Edwin Davenport, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Herbert Gallant (Government), Joseph Daniel Grandine, 2d (Chemistry), Donald Harting (Biochemical Sciences), Gerald Austin Kerrigan (Sociology), David Lowenthal (History), James Carse Melrose (Chemistry...
Grey-haired, twitchy-fingered Austin Cross, Parliamentary reporter of the Montreal Star, is a student of capital cities. He has visited Washington and the 48 U.S. State capitals (reserving Bismarck, N.Dak. for last), the ten Provincial capitals of Canada. But the capital he knows best is Ottawa, and last week he had Canadians atwitter with a rollicking book about the Ottawa scene...
...Sweatshop. Of Ottawa itself, Austin Cross wrote: "This is the capital of Canada. . . . Here is democracy at work with an hour and a half off for lunch. . . . This is where they run the war. You find soldiers who can't fight, sailors who can't sail, and flyers...