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...distinct from sporadic raids, showed a definite pattern. First they went after the naval bases and coastal air defenses-Portland, Plymouth, Dover, Southampton. Next they pressed inland looking for R. A. F. bases and aircraft factories. On Aug. 15, eleven bombers penetrated fighter and anti-aircraft defenses and reached Croydon, Britain's greatest airport, ten miles from London's heart. The British said all the raiders were destroyed, but so were hangars and shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes (counting repeaters) and announced...
Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...
...first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through to the final curtain...
Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left...
...Croydon, England, Mrs. Julia Baxter appeared in Bankruptcy Court. Her reasons: on a ?500 loan she recovered only ?175; crooked employes ruined her two business ventures; she lost ?22 gambling; burglars stole her jewelry. Asked why she had not sought her husband's financial advice, she replied: I found I had married a man with no brains...