Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blitz Family Robinson...
...London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...
...that the blitz is past, the plot has turned to the work of decontamination quads, convoy defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...blitz scattered British homes but it tidied up British thinking. It gave the British an idea of what they wanted. Last week they hoped that "the most important and dramatic announcement" of World War II would come out of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in Casablanca. When they found no Four-Power Pact had been formed, no evidence of a United Nations grand strategy council, no inspired program of joint political action, Britons wrote off the conference as just another meeting between their good friend Franklin Roosevelt and their old war horse Winston Churchill. A wit cabled that popular response...
...cough drops show that they could go up 100%, but sales are kept down by the sugar shortage. > First-aid equipment sales are up 67.1% (80% bought by women). Coastal States, according to Drug Topics, have bought more than interior States, suggesting that the gauze-buying is a blitz-preparedness move...