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Before Endeavour left Gosport, England last fortnight Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. received a cable: "Can you please refit Endeavour when she arrives?Sopwith." Although it is contrary to custom for a challenger and defender to be refitted at the same yards, the shipyard cabled that it would be pleased to do so. When Endeavour arrives at Bristol this week, the Herreshoff workers will doubtless be as much surprised by her as they were by her owner. Endeavour, hydrangea blue above water, bronze below, is made entirely of steel except for a silver-spruce boom and a mahogany rudder...
Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...considered by Harold Vanderbilt an economy boat. Using some of the equipment of Enterprise, the Cup defender which beat the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in 1930, she cost only $5,000,000. Rainbow was built in 97 working days at the Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. where Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, now 85 and retired, had designed and built five successful defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails, each consisting of 2 miles of canvas, weighing 1 1/4 tons, costing some $25,000 most of which...
...Teagle." What the Bond Club always enjoys most are the house advertisements, appearing in exactly the same positions as in Bawl Street's prototype: "We Maintain the Same Unlisted Trading Service That Once Upon a Time Maintained Us"-Bristol & Willett. "We Fiddle with U. S. Government Notes-Private Ire From Washington"- Boettcher-Newton & Co., "52 Back-to-the-Wall St." "Dillinger, Read & Co." "Metal Specialists-Ingot We Trust"- Harris & Vose. "All we know is what we read in the papers. ... If you don't believe it, send for a copy of our United Aircraft letter to Senators...
Worried liberals in the House of Commons tried to find out something about British plane sales to Germany. Up rose Robert Bernays, Member for Bristol...