Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the U. S. motorist would take kindly to the "bantam" Austin remained of course for time to demonstrate. The car is derived from the English Austin (though U. S. built and financed) and in England the Austin, made by Sir Herbert Austin, frequently termed Ford of England, has been successful for some eight years. There are also French and German companies making French and German Austins. In England and on the Continent, however, car sizes are considerably smaller than in the U. S., partly because of government taxes graded to weight and horsepower, partly because the foreign motorist...
Once employed by New York Life Insurance Co., courageous little Señor Augusto B. Leguía ("The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru") is now in his fourth term as President. Last week he gave the entire membership of the Chamber of Deputies a surprise party at his imposing Presidential Palace...
...Austin's sales success in the Dominions seems enormous to British eyes, trifling when compared with Ford figures. In June the special U. S. Austin will appear, is already being advertised as a cocky little bantam, has a bantam rooster trademark. *The International Labor Office adjoining the League of Nations in Geneva, is preparing for Mr. Ford a report which will enable him to pay his workman in a given European country a wage sufficient to buy in that country what a Ford worker in Detroit can buy with his wage...
...generally accepted is this illegal sport that last week advertisements introducing to the U. S. the Austin, smart diminutive vehicle, using a caricature of a bantam cock for an emblem, carried a bright series of colored pictures showing five crises in the course of a cockfight (TIME, March...