Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at 2100, Ruby Newman and his orchestra will play for the Regimental Ball. The curfew has been relaxed and dancing will continue until 0100. If the weather is mild, there will be terrace dancing in Eliot House...
...Friday the weekend becomes more social as Ruby Newman and his orchestra play the opening strains of the Regimental Ball. With relaxation of the curfew comes the announcement that dancing will continue until 0100; refreshments will be served. And if the weather permits, dancers can leave Eliot House Chow Hall for under the sky dancing on the terrace...
That night, after curfew, two of the goth's military police stopped two women in the village street. The women explained that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
...Elimination of the curfew, the brownout, the ban on racing...
...four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer in duty and principle, he had backed Byrnes on the so-called "tough war" measures (curfew, brownout, racing ban, etc.), had sternly maintained that the first & last job was to supply the fighting men. The result: some Washington officials thought he was too tough on civilians, wanted him sacked...