Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step toward a unified world, but still, it was a step. The U.N. Economic Commission for Europe announced last week that almost every European government (with the exception of the Soviet Union and Great Britain) had agreed to start daylight-saving time this year on the third Sunday in April...
Clue to the Worcester leads was supplied by reports that a gang, specializing in daylight robberies, had been seen there for the last two weeks. Police also suspect this group to be the same which committed the sensational $108,000 holdup of the Sturtevant machine company in Jamaica Plain two months...
Four armed bandits plus a driver of their getaway car pulled a daring daylight robbery this morning of the Harvard Cooperative Society, and made a successful $50,000 robbery screened by smoke bombs and under the eyes of two Cambridge patrolmen...
Budapest sewer-jacks stared in astonishment: the Direktor-the chief of sanitation himself-leading a bomb-hunt through the city sewers! Up in the daylight, too,' strange things were going on. Along all the main streets, police searched apartments, checked residents' identity documents. "On a certain day," the police explained, an order would be given for "strict security." All windows must be shut tight and kept that way. "And don't forget to hang out flags," the police added...
Alaskan weather was tough. The little planes had no de-icing equipment. They hopped along the Aleutian chain and on down the Alaska Highway, taking chances all the way with dwindling daylight and freezing weather...