Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changes in today's Europe or for austerity's effect on the splendid, self-disciplined people of Britain. In spite of the multitude of controls the British have to submit to every day now, the resilience of Britain's industry and workers, as I saw it in the plants I visited, is very impressive...
...Englishman when he expected to get his new car, however, and he said 'three years.' He may have to wait six years, and as a result the used car market in Britain (there is up to a 100% purchase tax on new cars) is flourishing. I saw a 1936 Packard on sale for $4,000, and a 1947 Studebaker should bring around...
...Elsewhere throughout Western Europe there are many signs of physical recovery evident even to the business tourist. The Netherlands is certainly on its way back, and a token of Dutch enterprise is the really remarkable new television set I saw at Philips of Eindhoven...
...greatest place on earth to live." He devoted most of another informal little speech to reminiscing about his father's job on the Southern Pacific, his own early days as a summer roustabout. "I thought I might have been a pretty good railroader," he chuckled, "but my father saw I was a failure and had no choice but to make a lawyer...
...organization, brought out low, medium and high-priced Buicks that could compete in almost any price range. By 1941, when Buick turned out 316,251 cars, they had pushed from eighth place to fourth, crowding out Dodge, Pontiac and Oldsmobile along the way. Once when the late Bill Knudsen saw one of Curtice's sales forecasts, he muttered: "Well, by Got, you can't shoot the moon unless you see it first, you know." Curtice not only made Buick one of G.M.'s most profitable divisions but kept its engineers hopping. (Buick's Dynaflow automatic transmission...