Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet. Bolzoni says it was exactly the same for him, though he never showed it. He tells me that he thought about his mother and father, northern Italians who went to the States in their early 20s, met and were married there. About his father's restaurant in Bristol, Conn., where he was born. When he was young, his parents used to speak Italian whenever they wanted to say something he and his sister were not supposed to understand...
...heart, thought he saw the Vatican off to the left. This conjured up a very distinct evening when he was 14 years old and his older sister came back from a trip to Italy and described Rome to the family. They were in the living room of their Bristol home. He was sitting on a footstool looking into his sister's face. She was sitting on a sofa with a ready-made album of various cities. She had liked Florence best because that was where her father came from, but one thing in Rome had excited...
...British air force's four planes, one (a Farman biplane) belonged to the officer who flew it. The other three were Government-owned Bristol Box Kites, contraptions of ash, spruce, cotton fabric, weighing half a ton and held together with "a tangle of piano wire." Pilots who wanted to test the rigging were said to place a bird in the pilot's seat. "If the bird managed to get out, they knew that there must be a wire missing...
...best available force with the minimum material. They based their force on the earliest foundations of British planecraft. The company founded by the first man to fly a plane in England (1908), A. V. Roe, is today the builder of Avro Anson, Manchester and Lancaster bombers. From the Bristol Box Kite descends today's Bristol Blenheims, Beauforts, Beaufighters...
...Manhattan last week Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser announced a new acquisition in the East: Bristol, Pa.'s Fleet-wings Inc., stainless-steel plane builder, whose $50,000,000 backlog includes Army trainers, parts for other aircraft firms...