Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fallible Wires. By no means are A. S. T. M. tests infallible. After satisfying A. S. T. M. specification for strength and flexibility, galvanized annealed steel wires were used for a suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the cables inexplicably began to fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge...
...assets ($11,500,000) as in sales ($8,000,000 last year) GTI is about twice as big as its nearest competitor, E. Ingraham Co. of Bristol, Conn., makers of Ingersoll watches. Other big clockmakers are New Haven Clock Co., Waterbury Clock Co. and Warren-Telechron, which is now a General Electric subsidiary. Waterbury makes electric clocks for Westinghouse. In a normal year the clock industry sells $35,000,000 worth of time instruments. but "normal" is now only a sweet memory. In 1932 the figure was down to approximately $13,000,000. Last year it was around...
...wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
...doctors will attend that annual convention. But only 172 members, delegates for the 101,754 A. M. A. members, will have anything authoritative to say, and that only between the authoritative gavel hangings of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, 70-year-old Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten of The Bronx...
...James A. E. Wood '37Luce Ernest D. Haseltine, Jr. '33Jasper Robert G. Reed '36Merrythought Henry Lloyd '37Mrs. Merrythought Raymond N. Svoboda '36Michael Thomas C. Hunt '36Tim Willard H. Griffin '37George Mark H. Cornell '37Humphrey William H. Jeffrey, Jr. '36Host Robert L. Scott '38Princess Philo F. Willets '36Tapster Howard H. Bristol '38Barber T. Walter Hardy '37Boy John T. Dunton...