Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb started ticking in the dusky hour when Londoners yawn and struggle home in the crowded underground. Ever since the Hun dropped it on April 16, 1941, the 1,100-lb. time-bomb had been buried under 30 feet of earth in London's beautiful St. James's Park. Londoners had given it a nickname, "Annie"; and its site was officially noted. Throughout the changing weather of war, victory and peace, people hurried past it on the rebuilt Tarmac walk, and courting couples sat on the nearby lawns...
Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing ticking away over in St. James's Park. Like all veterans, they were glad that the war was over, and yet the ticking of the bomb carried an echo of past excitement into the grouchy drabness of peace...
After a day of mounting suspense came the tantalizing anticlimax. "Bomb Goes Silent,'' read the headlines. Would Annie, as weary as other Londoners, just peter out? One edition later, the news was: "Park Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
...Barry reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
...plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...