Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons claimed for June. (Experts generally cut the German High Command's naval triumph figures almost in half.) The British took this as a sign that they were doing a lot better in the battle of the blockade, pointed out that July, with its lengthy stretches of daylight (in the region of Iceland as much as 24 hours), is considered one of the best months for maritime raiding. (The Nazis burbled that they had already sunk so much enemy tonnage that the Atlantic was virtually free of merchant shipping.) Undoubted contributing factor: withdrawal of long-range Nazi bombers...
...varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight...
...summertime this discomfort is not present, but setting the clock ahead has no effect on drying the dew off the grass, and dew immemorially has dried off about 9 a.m. Not until 10 a.m. daylight time, therefore, can much field work begin, so that whether or not they have to rise earlier to tend dairy cattle, their quitting time will be an hour later by the clock...
...President was expected to win in Congress although he claimed that Daylight Saving Time would save only 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of power for defense. This amount of power totals exactly five-tenths of 1% of U.S. power production, is only about enough to run the 2,500,000 new electric refrigerators sold to citizens in the first six months...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...