Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
...same is true of the movies. People love to see people get by with, get paid for, the very sins they do in secret. The secular press and the movies are doing more to hasten the downfall of America through moral bankruptcy and spiritual blackout than all other agencies of hell combined...
...Transformation Scene in which, at a wave of the Fairy's wand (and a brief, rumbling blackout), rags become riches and poor hovels, palaces...
Lost in the Dark. When the coastal blackout went into effect in April 1942, no one was forced to grope as much as Doug Leigh. Starting with $50 and a case of mumps at the depth of the depression, he had parlayed his native talents of salesmanship, showmanship and inventiveness into an electrified million-dollar business. He owned or operated the biggest single block of the dazzling and ingeniously animated signs along Broadway, when the lights were turned...
...reminded newsmen of the Roosevelt era, when the President's whereabouts were cloaked for days in a wartime security blackout. White House Secretary Charlie Ross had assured them that Harry Truman was hard at work in his study...