Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the coming of daylight saving, U.S. railroads hiked the number of lightweight streamline trains to 115, up 75% in 17 months. Before 1941's end, at least 20 more will be added. Meantime many other trains were speeded up last week. Typical improvements...
Godthaab, capital of South Greenland (population: 700), Penfield and West made their way to the U.S.'s most northerly consulate. They were astonished to find that Greenlanders, with almost 24 hours of sunlight a day during the summer, have daylight saving time...
...patent for a machine which uses radio beams to locate a plane in darkness or fog, plot its course through the skies on an indicator like a television screen. Anti-aircraft fire can thus be directed, it is thought, with even more accuracy than in present daylight firing...
Another preliminary, expected all along, would be intensified air attacks. Last week there was a tentative intensification, but not quite the real thing. There was a notable revival of daylight raids, in which Nazi planes undertook low-flying attacks on railways and their stations, ports and their installations, on airfields, troop camps, towns and villages. In fire raids on London, the Nazis reversed previous tactics, now dropping explosives before incendiaries, hoping to make fire fighters lie low while fires caught on. For three bad nights in a row, the South Wales port of Swansea took a pasting. On two successive...
Before he could make human beings of the waifs, Amala and Kamala, Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located...