Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge's "hell horns," which have been silent since last month's blackout, will wail again at an unannounced hour this Sunday afternoon in an experiment to determine warden and public reaction to the air raid sirens...
When the President swam in the White House pool, he took business callers along to finish conversations. Telephone calls from the far corners of the world interrupted his evenings; he seldom got to the White House movies now. He observed a nightly blackout: 2,700 yards of double-thickness blackout curtains were hidden behind White House draperies...
...facilitate free movement of the officers of the University during times of blackout or air raid. Official Identity Cards have been made available for them it was announced this week. These cards will give the bearer the right to move at will during a blackout...
Most of the police and air raid wardens on duty during such an emergency will not be acquainted with the officers of the University and will have orders to stop anyone abroad during a blackout who does not have positive and speedy means of identification...
...Understanding, planning, and work," Loughlin said, should be the key words of the conference. Considering the general problem of protecting the college, Major General Daniel J. Needham, Director of Protection Division, Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, asserted that the colleges had a legal and moral obligation to blackout and take other precautionary measures in order to relieve the municipalities of the burden...