Word: blitzkrieg
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Bombs were dropped over a widespread area, in both urban and rural districts. But tentative reports indicated that the raids nowhere approached blitzkrieg intensity...
...beginning of the Blitzkrieg Professor James and his wife, Concert Violinist Elsie Owen, moved from London to Oxford. Before Christmas they visited London and ran smack into one of its most violent air raids. Severely shaken, the professor and his wife were taken to a nursing home, later went back to their London house, where they slept in the basement...
Divorced. Major Alford J. Williams Jr., 44, Scripps-Howard columnist, Gulf Oil aviation manager, most vocal U. S. proponent of the Douhet theory of aerial Blitzkrieg; by Florence Hawes Williams, 38, after 15 years' marriage; in Reno...
Leach doubted whether, in the event of a British defeat, South America would be an asset to us. South America can be acquired "at blitzkrieg tempo" by a ruthless nation with a strong fleet and long-range bombers, he said, and our good-neighbor policy is "an artificial trifle" when compared with that threat...
...William Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer of the British Ministry of Health, told Britons last week that four months of Blitzkrieg conditions had resulted only in an "infinitesimal" increase in disease. Scarlet fever and diphtheria had actually decreased and the number of pneumonia cases had grown but a trifle. The notable disease increase was in cerebrospinal meningitis, with 12,500 cases in 1940 as against...