Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled 14,000 miles. He had talked with four Prime Ministers, twelve Cabinet members, one King (and an African tribal chieftain on the way home), one Archbishop, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, innumerable soldiers, policemen, laborers, dock workers, charwomen, waitresses, bricklayers, chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...
...Southern Railway streamliner, to begin operating this spring from Memphis to Washington, will be steam instead of Diesel drawn between Lynchburg and Bristol, Va. Reason: between those points it will use the right of way of Norfolk & Western, which gets 80% of its freight business from hauling coal and refuses to allow a Diesel on its tracks...
...Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...
...feeling of approaching invasion was everywhere, though there was little in last week's air fighting to support it. The Luftwaffe took a rest after the big London raid, then gave the capital an easy time as it swept in along the south coast to hand Cardiff and Bristol blistering doses of fire bombs and explosives. The R. A. F. plastered Bremen hard three nights running, firing the Focke-Wulf factory and large areas of the town, blowing up docks and oil refineries. At week's end German bombers returned to London in another incendiary attack but thousands...
...British maintained, morning after morning, that in spite of civilian suffering, damage to industrial targets and shipping facilities was not serious in view of the heaviness of the raids. But people who saw Bristol after its third major dose said that, while ships were still loading and unloading there, wide sections of the town (pop. 415,000) looked worse than the shattered heart of Coventry. It was reliably reported that big Southampton was again out of action as a port of ingress...