Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as though daylight bombing was not a purely Yankee trick. Whether it will work in Europe's misty winter, when ground targets cannot be seen through bombsights, is still argued...
Last week the R.A.F. tried what it had rejected. Ninety-four Lancaster four-motored planes bombed the Schneider-Creusot gun works (chief works of the famed French trust & munitions cartel) and the Henri Paul power plant in daylight. There was no fighter protection. Only one bomber failed to return...
Vesuvius. Nazi planes in thick swarms rose to meet them. The greatest daylight air offensive thus far over the Continent was met by one of the greatest defensive waves of fighters. On Sept. 15, 1940, when some 400 Nazi planes attacked Britain, R.A.F. fighters knocked down 185 and turned a tide. This time there was another tide-turning...
...Nast, society was only the work of evenings. The daylight was for publishing, and this was hard work. In the area he created, and in which he was lord, Nast became as expert as an assayer. His primary task as a publisher was to choose editors who best knew how to choose-out of the flooding hundreds of fashion ideas, from ruffles to shoes to dinner-table glassware-the fashions which had that indefinable "smartness" which he could sense, almost by smell. Then he-and they-went to work on the presentation-to "bait the editorial pages," as he once...
Worst hazards in many an underwriter's opinion are dimmed traffic lights, most of which have lost about 90% of their effectiveness and are barely visible in daylight. Other problems coming up before the meeting...