Word: sunbeams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Lamotte is an amiable, agitated man who speaks at feverish speed, waving his hands and shrugging his shoulders to fill the holes in his broken English. Meticulous in his sketching, Lamotte spent five days before Chartres Cathedral last summer waiting for a cloud or a sunbeam to produce the effect he wanted, the light on the cathedral that he remembered from boyhood...
...with what it will be, but it is a modern miracle. The process of sending electronic pictures through the air and reassembling them in the living room is one of the great achievements of modern science. It all began in 1873 with a sharp-eared Irishman and a leprechaun sunbeam...
...dealer. But "used" 1946 models were so profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth ?991 new is worth ?1,850 ($7,640) secondhand, a ?352 Ford is worth...
Bombers to Beds. The famed Mosquito bomber plant had begun producing utility furniture for newlyweds. Austin and Morris, Britain's top two car makers, were pouring out a stream of shiny new automobiles. The Sunbeam Co. had started on three great fleets of busses for South Africa. Tractors and cars were to go to Turkey and the Middle East. Several aircraft plants had swiftly switched to making prefabricated houses and car parts. A sprawling airplane equipment factory in Speke was turning out children's pumps and women's corsets...
...Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston and Writer William L. White* listened to their Moscow hosts sing Russian songs. Then the Russians politely asked their guests to sing an American song. Johnston and White responded with the only song they could think of: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam...