Word: blitzkreig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distance even remotely comparable to the span of the Atlantic ocean. But it has been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to appoint fire-wardens, organize defense corps, and in general put or communities, large and small, in a state of readiness for blitzkreig. Now comes an announcement from Lloyd's London, the final authority on the element of chance in this world, that they are ready to give insurance against damage in the bombing of New York, Washington, Boston, or other American cities, at odds of 1000 to 1. Such odds, of course, might...