Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Tillet was head of Bristol's potent Dockers' Union he met young Ernest Bevin (now Minister of Labor), gave him his first union job and became the strongest influence in his life. After the abdication of his good friend the Duke of Windsor he said: "I regret that that great little gentleman did not let fly ... and tell us just what the bishops and politicians, who hounded him from public life, were pressing...
...engine problem the whole escort program depends on other hard-pressed suppliers. Probably the worst bottleneck is valves made by Crane, Lunkenheimer and Worthington Pump. Shafting comes from such companies as Erie Forge, Camden Forge and American Locomotive. From Cleveland's Bailey Meter Co. and Connecticut's Bristol Co. come meters and regulating devices...
Miss Rondfield is well known in British trade union circles, having served as representative of the Trade Union Council in Russia in 1920 and as labor adviser at the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919. A member of Parliament during the 1920's, she received an LL.D. from Bristol University, which was presented to her by Winston Churchill, chancellor of the university...
...type of Mitsubishi Finsei engine, essentially a copy of the U.S. Pratt & Whitney Wasp with features of the Wright Cyclone and British Bristol Hercules, is used in many of the Zeros. It is a 14-cylinder, double-banked, radial air-cooled engine, rated 1,050 h.p. when run on 95 to 100 octane fuel. Workmanship is spotty; some parts are finely finished, others are very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate...
...Brandon Hill, in Bristol, two huge cannon, which for 87 years had pointed their empty mouths over the town, were being dismounted. They were Russian cannon, which Bristol lads had captured in the Crimean War, at the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, and had brought home as trophies. But now Bristol lads were fighting on Russia's side, and the cannon, heavy with good iron, could be melted down to be made into modern weapons...