Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
Before he came to Princeton, the 45 year old native of Bristol, Virginia, coached for 17 years at Williams. In his triple capacities of football, baseball, and basketball mentor, he complied an over-all winning average...
Four days after the Bermuda Sky Queen's forced landing, a Bristol land plane, operated by the French Compagnie des Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, crashed in the Mediterranean on a flight from Marseille to Oran, Algeria. Forty-one died; two were rescued...
...staged a May Day demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
From northern Shropshire down to the Bristol Channel, the Severn swirled over its highest known flood marks. Many Yorkshire mine pits were inundated-another serious setback for coal production...