Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Manhattan Beautician Miss Gloria Bristol was back from Europe bursting with professional details of how Crown Princess Juliana lost some 30 lbs. within three months after her marriage, changed from a dumpling damsel into a royal wife with chic. "What Wallis Warfield was to the American woman over 40 who thought that life and romance ended with one's first youth," cried Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has become to millions of girls who had almost resigned themselves to the fate of the wallflower...
Meanwhile the Imperial Airways flying boat Cavalier, built by Short Brothers in England and powered by four Bristol .Pegasus motors, was reversing the route. Hampered by the winds which helped the Bermuda Clipper, it skimmed the waves at 1,000 ft., reached Port Washington in 5 hr. 49 min. after a brief detour to see the towers of Manhattan. The doggy blue uniform of the Cavalier's Captain William Neville Gumming, veteran of the trans-Mediterranean run, who stepped jauntily ashore carrying kid gloves at a rakish angle in his left hand (see cut, p. 52), brought quips from...
...pooled the eleven companies, made them profitable. His genius for utilities took him into street railways, gained him the 'presidency of Bristol Traction Co. Eleven years ago his prestige and ability carried him into Connecticut's biggest business of all, insurance, when he was made a director of Aetna Life. His directorates included Aetna, National Fire, Automobile Insurance Co., Aetna Casualty & Indemnity and Hartford-Connecti-cut Trust...
...shopping district, stands a big, three-story brick building that used to be a bag factory. Today it houses a typical supermarket, Depression's great contribution to U. S. retailing. This supermarket, Trading Post, Inc., was founded in 1934 by Roy O. Dawson with the backing of the Bristol brothers, Lee, Henry and William (of Bristol-Myers...
Originally known as Dawson's Trading Post, the supermarket developed a $2,500,000 annual business but brought no returns to the Brothers Bristol. Founder Dawson was ousted last year, some $800 was spent obliterating his name from the market, and a young merchandising expert from Marshall Field & Co. named Harper Sowles was installed as president...