Word: britannias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Edinburgh, reported London's Evening Standard, has bloomed as an inventor. His brain child: a 58-ft. tablecloth containing "hundreds of yards of wire sandwiched between layers of felt and latex." When plugged in, the electrified tablecloth, spread over the royal board in the royal yacht Britannia, will provide power for electric candelabra placed anywhere upon...
Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
...done too much "talking about tomorrow's jam instead of concentrating on today's bread and butter. The time has come to build more aircraft and fewer models. In my opinion, American jets will not be operating until well into the 19603, by which time the Britannia turboprop and the Comet IV will have been operating for years...
BOAC hopes to put the Bristol Britannia, a four-engined turboprop, in service across the Atlantic by 1957, fly the ocean nonstop at 400 m.p.h...
...thesis-writer's book-notes as "intelligently done" but criticized her bibliography on Bakunin as "less than I would expect from the competent undergraduate." Admitting that Miss Taunton "obviously knows how to use reference works," he pointed out that the bibliography includes such unimaginative entries as the Encyclopedia Britannia and fails to include Bakunin's own works or some of the foreign books...