Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still uses Fiat designs on a royalty basis, is Pigozzi...
This is to express my hearty approval of your new feature: Judgments & Prophecies [Aug. 23 et...
...priced surplus ships to foreign investors. But despite all precautions, United Tanker Corp., a Chinese firm with a phony U.S. front, worked out a deal to buy six surplus tankers from a group of promoters headed by Joseph E. Casey,*onetime Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.). As a test case the U.S. Justice Department went to court over the sale of one tanker (the Meacham), won the case, seized five ships and sold the Meacham with the proceeds held by the court...
Lizzy Miles (Cook LP). Billed as "Queen Mother of the Rue Royale," Blues Shouter Miles sounds much like her sisters, Bessie Smith. Chippie Hill et al., with the difference that, pushing 60 she is very much alive. Taped in New Orleans last spring this beautifully recorded album also contains a chorus (All of Me) in French and. of all things, a hot bugle, played by Buglin' Sam DeKemel...
Their grandfather, who met them when they arrived in town, was a tall old Scotsman with a craggy face and eyes so deeply set that it was hard to tell whether they were kind or fierce. "Have you et?" he demanded gruffly. The boys said yes. "Have you watered?" They said yes. Then all three started off to the farm on foot. Once outside town, grandfather stopped and took off his boots-"for thrift," as he explained, since they were the only pair he had-and walked the rest of the way barefoot...