Word: air-raid
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German aviators are pretty good at knocking out Russian airfields (see cut), not so good over cities. Said a German report of Leningrad's air-raid defense after eight weeks of siege: "It is much stronger than that German flyers have experienced over England or anywhere else since the beginning...
President Conant, who shared speaking honors with President Baxter, compared the tranquil scene at Adams's informal dinner with a similar dinner at Trinity College, in Cambridge, England. There the banquet was practically disrupted by an air-raid alarm, but the intrepid students remained in their places until the "immediate danger" signal should come-which it never...
...complacent about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
...week, from fire towers in Massachusetts, from skyscrapers in Manhattan, on lonely farms in Pennsylvania, on sandy knolls along the Virginia coast, from 1,600 posts along the Atlantic seaboard, 40,000 pairs of civilian eyes peered at the sky. These volunteer watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S. They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything...
...until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area. He shuttles planes about at will, cannot be gainsaid by officers in the field...