Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern shows that Britain's vast industrial Midlands section, from Birmingham and Coventry north to Leeds and York, had been molested only lightly. Her west-coast ports north of the Bristol Channel were untouched. Only a few of her aircraft factories had been attacked. R. A. F.'s widely scattered bases had received attention but nothing like concentrated attack. Chief targets were naval bases, commercial ports, oil dumps on the southwest, south and east coasts, and munitions plants in the north (Middlesbrough, Billingham, Greenock). London was bombed only around its fringes, suggesting the efficacy of its balloon barrage...
...improved British magnetic mine was announced, with news that big Bristol Beauforts and Handley Page Hampdens had been sowing them industriously for weeks in German harbors as far east as the Baltic...
...Ernie" Bevin was a callow carter's apprentice at Bristol when famed Ben Tillett, hero of the Dockers' Strike of 1889-greatest of the 19 Century in Britain-found him and took him to London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...
Plewman is Canada's only first-rate public military analyst. His integrity is a legend in Canada. Born in Bristol, England, son of a Methodist leatherworker, Plewman emigrated to the Dominion with his family when he was eight, in school and church set a long-standing record for juvenile deportment. Not long after he went to work as a reporter, he stood for vice president of the Toronto Press Club, put up posters reading: "Plewman for Vice." Up went placards by his rival: "What does Plew man know about vice?" He was defeated...
Gary Grant has made better pictures than My Favorite-Wife. He has seldom collected a better fee-$100,000. For a boy who was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England and ran away at twelve to join a tumbling act, this...