Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate having to write this book. Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into some-thing like a mixture of dirty rags and cat's meat you would realize this fact as intensely...
Based on his own researches of several months in war-torn Spain, Professor Haldane writes: "The best way to avoid being bombed is to avoid war. . . . Many of the questions which are asked concerning Air Raid Precautions are unanswerable in the form in which they are put. If I am asked 'Does any gas mask give complete protection against phosgene?' the only literally true answer is 'No'. . . . But one would be safe in a phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such...
...first air raids may not be on Central London at all but on the traffic jams around it," warns Professor Haldane. "In Spain, at any rate, the German airmen seem to prefer to attack concentrated traffic, whether on wheel or on foot, rather than to bomb buildings, when they have the choice. ... In Barcelona one dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than...
...three days last March, Barcelona was bombed systematically at intervals of every three hours. The loss of life was more than half of London's air-raid toll during the entire World War. Reputedly used for the first time was a new bomb, the gas expansion of which killed people an eighth of a mile away from the explosion, stunned those a quarter of a mile away. Although Barcelona's morale showed signs of cracking, the heavy raids ceased suddenly...
Last week, reports from U. S. Army circles in Washington gave credence to contentions that the Barcelona raids had also been experimental. The new bomb, it was said, was a closely guarded German military secret. All that foreign military attachés in Leftist Spain had learned from a study of its fragments was that it was filled with exploding liquid air, was made of a material more durable and lighter than aluminum...