Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 24 story of Captain Austin King's use of salad oil to solve his hydraulic problem over Seoul in his C46 recalled the time our 6-24, Sweet Sue, took a German flak burst amidships early in '44, which pierced several small holes in our hydraulic lines...
...open-throttle British auto race for the $40 million export market to the U.S., Rootes Motors' hard-driving Sir William Rootes (Hillman Minx, Humber, Rover, Sunbeam-Talbot) had already knocked Austin out of second place. Last week Sir William claimed that he had overtaken Lord Nuffield,* was now shipping more cars to the U.S. than any other British maker. His total: 4,942 Rootes cars exported in the first half...
...Captain Austin J. King of San Rafael, Calif, banked his heavy-bellied C46 over Seoul airport one night this week, pushed the stick forward and prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot...
...speaking well of the Red Astrachan in an editorial on "The August Apple," the New York Herald Tribune got a folksy letter from a satisfied reader: Apple Fancier Mildred Austin, wife of onetime Vermont Senator and U.N. Delegate Warren R. Austin. "After an absence of approximately twenty-two years ..." she chatted, "we are living permanently in our Burlington, Vt. home, where my husband is able to devote much of his time to his beloved orchard, renewing daily his devotion to the United Nations in his international orchard . . . During the month of August the aroma of a deep apple...
...Texas, the Cossets were startled to find the Lone Star Republic's flag still flying outside public schools alongside the Stars & Stripes, the French embassy still standing at the old Lone Star capital of Austin. They were even more startled by some of the tall tales Texans told until they realized that it was just gasconnade (as Frenchmen call the braggadocio of their own "Texans" of Gascony). In Crystal City, Texas, the world's self-styled spinach capital, the Gossets found a statue of Popeye in the public square...