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...personal crisis as the underlying fact of his nation's woefully low coal production was brought to a head by mean, frosty, snowy, windy weather. The Crisis itself had been a stunning blow (TIME, Feb. 17). Now, as it deepened, it was worse in many ways than the blitz at its worst: it hit everybody. The Government extended its five-hour domestic power switchoff and blackout of cities, villages, industries from Land's End to John o' Groats...
...most terrible of human forces-fright-was abroad in Britain. The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never frightened them...
Labor legislation was next. To the long list of things to do (e.g., revise the Wagner Act, possibly outlaw the closed shop) party leaders added legislation to head off the economic blitz recently launched by labor lawyers with the portal-to-portal pay drive (see BUSINESS). In the first 48 hours probably a hundred labor bills will be dumped into the hopper...
...many years Huxley was director of the London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...plenty to forget. At 25, in the spring of 1939, he joined the London Bureau of the A.P. That fall he was one of the twelve U.S. correspondents assigned to the British Expeditionary Force. From then on, in England, Africa and Europe-ending with Dunkirk; and later, after the Blitz, returning to the Continent for the New York Times, he saw more of the war than most of his colleagues, rapidly built a reputation for courageous and able reporting. He is now the Times's correspondent in Moscow, but Our Share of Night covers only...