Word: blitzing
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...that they would not come in until they knew exactly how they would stand with the U.S.S.R. after the war. They also made it plain that they would need air protection for Istanbul and Ankara, both highly vulnerable to bombing, and military aid in the event of a Nazi blitz from Bulgaria. There matters stood until Teheran...
Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural" U.S.-British mission-had persuaded his clients that, to win over the U.S. market, British films must be distributed by the Big Five U.S. producers...
...Fires. Fifteen hundred tons of bombs in a raid last week raised the tonnage dropped on Berlin in one fortnight to as much as London took in all the blitz of 1940-41. A force of 500 heavy bombers attacked industrial areas in southeast Berlin, which had been largely spared, impeded recovery from the fires and terror of the previous fortnight's serial raids. Strengthened defenses cost the R.A.F. 41 planes...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
Wealth. The ancient City of London has become a small part of the present metropolis. In it is the Empire's financial center. There bank messengers run their errands in tall top hats, even to this rationed day, even through the ruins of the blitz. Last week two Members of the House from the City of London sat on the Treasury bench, wearing tall top hats...