Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First came the droves of bombing planes over all main Finnish cities. Apparently most came from Russia's new bases in Estonia (see map). They showed ability in reaching their objectives on schedule in formation through low, overcast clouds, but their bombing aim was wretched. At Helsinki, the capital, they aimed at the big central railroad station, freight yards, post office, and at the west harbor (navy yard, transatlantic piers), but mostly hit apartment houses blocks away, shattered the windows of their own legation. Aiming at the city's water supply, they hit the new Olympic Stadium. They...
...took advantage of clear weather to bomb Heligoland (which Britain traded for Zanzibar in 1890), claimed hits on two Nazi cruisers...
...Great Britain the Ministry of Supply announced that a 13-year-old schoolboy, one John Clough, had (while bedded with a chill in the infirmary) worked out a new type of air bomb which was a "first-class idea," had passed preliminary tests...
...joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...
...drive ambulances and help drag the wounded out of smashed buildings. Some Defense Passives have already bought long, brown, gas-proof capes with yellow scarves, but most are still thriftily hesitating to uniform themselves. Just now they are "practicing," driving about at night in completely lightless ambulances to hypothetical bomb spots...