Word: blitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coventry Cathedral, smashed by the Nazis in the blitz of 1940, will rise from its ashes. Last week Britain's Ministry of Works granted a rebuilding license, thereby overruling the utilitarian objections of Coventry's city council. The council had argued that Coventry needs more schools, homes and health centers before men and materials can be spared for church building. But Sir David Eccles wrote to its lord mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? Is it always right to prefer things seen to things unseen . . . ? The echo of bombs which destroyed your...
...Blitz Selling. Most of the old hands were still in good shape; they went after customers and clinched deals with old-fashioned selling. Packard dealers were making door-to-door calls to line up prospects. The Ford Motor Co. put on a nationwide campaign of "blitz sales." In Seattle, Ford Dealer William 0. McKay advertised that he had to sell 131 cars in 48 hours. The inference was that he would make a good deal, and customers nocked to his showrooms. Without benefit of discounts or special deals, McKay easily sold the cars. In Denver, Ford Dealer Richard Whitfield...
...Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through the pangs of first love with a girl whose cockney accent is acceptable because of her large violet eyes; on through the placid joys of marriage with a vigorous woman who is killed in the blitz, and the complexities of getting to know his 17-year-old son. In the end, Charles, after a lifetime as a dark horse, is rapidly closing in on an American filly, who is too old for his son but not too young...
...City's" Duty. In a sense, Sir John is now doing the same job for Britain's ex-steel shareholders, bombed out by the Labor Party's nationalization blitz. He is seeing to it that the former owners of the steel-company properties get the first chance at rebuying them, and, where the bids are fair, sees that they get them...
...British Medical Association to a policy which recognizes trained Freudians as the only true analysts. And it was Jones who braved Nazi cops in 1938 to bring the ailing Freud, with his wife and daughter Anna, from Vienna to England. Since he was bombed out of London during the blitz, Dr. Jones himself has become a placid countryman. He likes to look out of his windows at the rolling Sussex hills, which he calls "maternal mounds." A close student of the Oedipus-complected Hamlet, he is said to have coached Sir Laurence Olivier on the proper gestures to suggest...