Word: wolseley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, while London pundits predicted almost with one voice that his successor would probably be Lord Privy Seal Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, curious crowds gathered before the palace gates. At 1:45 p.m. a cry went up when a small, dusty Wolseley entered the palace gates: "Here comes Butler!" Then some one recognized the bareheaded man sitting next to the driver in the front seat, and shouted: "It's Mac, the bookie!" Forty minutes later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, half-American grandson of a Scots tenant farmer, ex-Grenadier Guardsman and wartime friend of President Dwight...
...workers, last week was shutting down assembly lines and was cut back to a four-day week, while unsold cars spilled over onto abandoned airstrips and playing fields. And there was worse to come. Britain's No. 1 automaker, British Motor Corp. (Morris, Austin, M.G., Riley and Wolseley) last week announced a 7.5% price increase. Though Britons rushed to buy new cars before the price boost went into effect, the industry still had 70,000 unsold autos at week's end and will find it even harder to sell its output from...
...Each summer a group of professors spends some time with us, studying our working methods, asking questions, and using us as a laboratory to help them in their teaching. This year the guest professors are Richard Joel of Florida State University, George E. Serries of Boston University, Roland E. Wolseley of Syracuse University, and Fred Kildow of the University of Minnesota...
...Britain's postwar scramble for dollars, no exporters have scrambled harder than two rivals of the motor industry: Viscount Nuffield, head of Morris, and Leonard P. Lord, boss of Austin. When Lord brought out a new Austin for the export trade, Nuffield retaliated with the popular-priced Wolseley. When Lord introduced two bigger models, Nuffield struck back with the sporty M.G. and the sleek Riley. No sooner did Lord start pushing Austin's two-seat convertible than Nuffield brought out a new Morris Minor. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). But since Lord had been Nuffield's right-hand...