Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester butcher, won the 750-mi. free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...
...million and 500,000 Republican voters in Pennsylvania went to the primary polls last week to deal a new hand all around in State politics. Within twelve hours they had retired Senator Joseph Ridgway ("Old Joe") Grundy to his Bristol yarn mills, created a vacancy in President Hoover's Cabinet, smashed the hopes of Senator-reject William Scott Vare of becoming G. O. P. boss of the State, registered their opinion on Prohibition, recalled to high office one of their ablest and most distinguished citizens...
...committee hearing neared its end, Senators hostile to the Treaty began to talk of changes and reservations based on the technical objections of Admirals Jones and Bristol. But even such threats of tangling the pact in new diplomatic coils did not down the widespread opinion that the Senate would ratify the agreement before it went home for the summer...
...retaliation, union labor friends of Secretary Davis charged that Senator Grundy used British-made machinery in his big Bristol textile factory. Senator Grundy admitted he did, explained that the original machinery was imported 70 years ago with only replacements since then...
...owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel...