Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow lifted its blackout of news from Austria. A terse Tass dispatch from Vienna reported: a conference of Austrian political parties had proclaimed a new "Austrian Provisional Government." Chancellor and Foreign Minister was aging (74) Dr. Karl Renner, veteran Social Democrat, head of the Austrian peace delegation in 1919, first Chancellor of the Austrian Republic (1919-20). Thirteen other Cabinet posts were parceled among a coalition of Social Democrats (four), Christian Social (four), Communists (three) and Independents...
...blackout" was officially ended in Britain* last week. But for most Britons the lightup was a letdown. Instead of full illumination, they got only an installment. Darkened cities along the coast will remain dark. And streets will not be fully lit till July...
...most Britons the best thing about the lightup was that they could at last take down their blackout curtains. For 2,061 nights (and mornings) they had been one of the biggest minor nuisances Britons had had to struggle with. Now the curtains were being converted into black clothes and funeral coverings. Said a housewife: "With the curtains gone, I feel I've got no clothes on." Said a five-year-old moppet, watching her mother take down the curtains: "It's lovely to let out the light, but how shall we keep out the dark...
...Moscow's blackout was lifted on April 30. For the first time in four years, lights shone again in the huge stars atop the Kremlin's towers...
...Third Army, which had crossed the Czechoslovak border, suddenly swung south and shot an armored division 53 miles in the direction of Regensburg. At latest reports this outfit was "running wild" under a security blackout. The storm was gathering over the northern roof of the Alpine bastion...