Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
There were gags of all nations. Hope joshed the British: "Churchill certainly travels; he's been in Casablanca more than Humphrey Bogart." He ragged the Scots: "That blackout's wonderful; you should see the Scotchmen running around developing film." The real show, however, was for the Yanks, and he knew what they wanted: "Were the soldiers at the last camp happy to see me! They actually got down on their knees. What a spectacle! What a tribute! What a crap game...
...London debate on the blackout flared anew. The United Kingdom was heading toward its fifth black winter. On Aug. 15, the nation cut one hour from its double summer time...
Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison has an uncomplicated reason for continuing the blackout: lights would guide the Luftwaffe, illuminate its targets. Campaigners against the blackout answer with statistics: since war began 15,000 Britons have died on black-out roads, 160,000 have been injured. This winter's toll will be about 4,000 killed and 40,000 injured...
With few exceptions, the British press opposes the blackout. Argued Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "We shall return to the Dark Ages. . . . The blackout will clog our transport and put fresh brakes on industrial production. ... In 1941 industrial accidents among men rose by 42% over 1938; among women by 192%. . . .In 1940 many citizens accepted the blackout as a grim necessity. . . . 1940 is as remote as 1840 for everybody -except the Government departments which imposed the blackout and on this matter have suffered a mental blackout ever since...