Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to Purnea with a report of "reasonably satisfactory" flying conditions in the Everest vicinity. That was all the Britons were waiting for. The two specially built Westland planes, shipped by boat from England and powered with supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
Rothermere for the Press & Journal, paying the absurd figure of ?750,000 to keep the enemy out of camp. In Hull, Gloucester, Bristol, Staffordshire, many another town, Rothermere.got a foothold. Wherever both camps had papers, there was a furious fight for circulation. In Newcastle, Rothermere planted his Evening World in opposition to Camrose's old established Chronicle. In 100 days he ran the World's circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free...
...provinces were getting better newspapers than they ever dreamed of. But all the publishing world knew the war was uneconomic in the extreme. Early last year the combatants began to pull their punches. Rothermere abandoned his expensive Newcastle paper on condition that Camrose withdraw from Bristol. Rumors of a more extensive truce gained in volume until last week when Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd., having never shown a profit, announced voluntary dissolution...
Leslie Martin Bell 2M, of Dozier, Alabama; Robert Lee Brown 4M, of Rochester, New York; Norman Hull Bruce 3M, of Brighton; Oliver Cope 2M, of Boston; Albert Wallace Cowan 2M, of Bristol, Tennessee; Edmund John Croce 2M, of Worcester; Robert Croly Darling 3M, of New York City; William Finkelstein 3M, of Waterbury, Connecticut; Don William Freeman 3M, of Denison, Texas; Travis Armitage French 2M, of New Castle, Pennsylvania; Dale Gilbert Friend 2M, of Missouri Valley, Iowa...
DOYLE (A. Conan) The Great Shadow and Reyond the City. Very Scarce. (C. 1890). Bristol...