Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether this report is true or not, Trondheim was by last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking...
...Daylight Saving. Radio programs have always slumped in spring, presumably because the annual change to daylight saving time confused millions of listeners who couldn't locate their favorite programs. C. E. Hooper, Inc., announced that this May (with no changeover from War Time to D.S.T.) listening was down only half a point from April. Last year the drop for the period was 7.3 points. There had been no drop this year when the nation went on War Time, because every clock moved...
...stocky, cocky C. E. Hooper, head of one of radio's two big program surveying concerns (the other: Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gets out the "Crossley" ratings), the results were a personal triumph. He had long maintained that, since daylight saving means little to 70% of Americans except through their radio dials, broadcast schedules ought to stick to standard time...
...Hurricanes are helped by bigger fellows-light and medium bombers, big enough to carry more bombs, yet handy enough to work close to the ground. They work by daylight, too. At dusk the big guns go out-four-motored Stirlings and Halifaxes with better than 10,000 pounds of bombs in their bays. They can range far across Germany, will probably range farther before the summer...
...even the short nights of summer should be no insuperable barrier to long-range operation of big bombers. With plenty of fighters on hand the R.A.F. can send off its big guns by daylight, provide them with pursuit escort until darkness, pick them up at dawn on the way home...