Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Lord Privy Seal, recently told his Bristol constituents: "The Germans are getting uneasy at the militant spirit of the British and American people in this matter of a second front." The Italians, who know that some of the most militant Allied strategists propose to establish the second front on the Italian boot, are patently most uneasy...
...best cylinder heads sometimes cracked under prolonged stress. Heads have two functions: to withstand the tremendous pressures generated by the cylinder's air-gas vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird's nest of sand patterns. Hundreds of nails, each hand-placed, held the sand in form while the metal was poured...
...profits. United's outlets were the 568 directly owned stores of the Liggett chain, some 10,000 "Rexall" independents. The grandiose Drug, Inc. merger contained many a great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough United stock remained in manufacturing...
Winant in London. At Bristol airport, when Winant arrived, he was supposed to be welcomed by the Duke of Kent, but the Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...
...snatch the planes outright, may ask the airlines to operate them as air-cruising taxis for troops. TWA President Frye claims that 40 Constellations could transport 16,000 troops to Alaska in 26 hours, 7,500 troops to Hawaii in 48, make a round trip from Boston to Bristol, England...