Word: lancastrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
Britain's experimental jet-powered passenger plane, the Nene-Lancastrian, said Whittle, was "an almost alarming-success." Flying on jets alone, she was uncannily quiet. "You can hear the engines of other planes. Imagine what that means to flying! Almost everybody gets tired on airplanes. It's the noise and vibration that does it. In a jet plane you can rest...
...bomb-chesty body of a four-engined Lancastrian (converted Lancaster bomber) rumbled up Buenos Aires' Morón airport, rose easily over the Plata estuary, and shrank into the east. A good turnout of proud British clapped politely. Regular biweekly service from Argentina to London (via Montevideo, Rio, Natal, Bathurst, Lisbon), by the soon-to-be-nationalized British South American Airways (B.S.A.A.), had begun...