Word: air-raid
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...about whether they had done well or badly. In Seattle they were talking about Brigadier General Carlyle Wash, boss of the Second Interceptor Command, who ordered the blackouts, ordered radio stations off the air. When listeners complained, General Wash snorted: "To hell with entertaining people. We're trying to save their fool lives." They talked about one blackout crime: a man posed as an air-raid warden, raped a Chinese girl. They talked about the storm that swept the coast-one of the worst in years-of which no mention appeared in the papers until long after...
...Royal Hawaiian Hotel was almost deserted. At Waikiki tourists still lolled about on the abbreviated beach (a good hunk of it was washed out to sea last year), but in houses all over the Honolulu hills housewives were trying to figure out where to put an air-raid shelter. Almost 5,000 volunteers flocked into Queen's Hospital to contribute blood to a blood bank...
...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...
...banks had bought $38,000,000 in "Governments," thus boosting total holdings to $3,378,000,000-a new high record. The tactic was successful, since the bonds were above par at week's end. Cracked one dealer in Governments: "If the Treasury will take care of false air-raid alarms, we will take care of the Government bond market...
Scoundrel. In London, George Hall was given seven days in jail for "willfully disturbing other persons" in an air-raid shelter by snoring...