Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chew-Chew. In Philadelphia, when a test blackout started, the John L. Riccitelli family of eleven were about to sit down to their hamburgers. When the lights went on, the hamburgers were all in Chu-Chu, the family...
Latest word from M.I.T. reports taht its team hasn't been able to have much practice because of the installation of blackout curtains in the gym this week. Howover, last Firday it defeated North-eastern 35-37 in an unofficial game...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...
Never before has the London stage thrived more lustily than it does today under acute difficulties. Where last year there were 16 shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...
...comforting hum of power was heard last night in the spacious quarters of the Crimson Network as the master technician threw the switch which pours Cambridge current into the powerful transmitters broadcasting nightly to the seven Houses. A continued blackout of the transmitting facilities caused well informed Network circles to voice dark hints of sabotage by the newly established station...