Word: dday
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...DDay, H-Hour...
Everybody refers to DDay, H-Hour. Can you please tell me what they stand for or how they originated...
...Other Morning. As morning came and the realization finally dawned that this was Dday, the U.S. people reacted like Americans...
Rise Ahead? Both markets withstood the first shock of Dday, just as both had tumbled at the Fall of France in 1940. But otherwise, each had its own unfathomable methods of deciding whether news was good or bad. Typically, while the Japs were lopping off the Malay States and Singapore in early 1942, the New York market tumbled. The London market declined, but rallied quickly. And percentag-wise, it has climbed far higher than has New York...
...over the land, people were thinking of Dday. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced a street service to be held in Madison Square on the day; Maryland's Governor Herbert O'Conor asked all liquor stores to close for the rest of the day on receipt of the invasion news. And in Washington, OWI Chief Elmer Davis pleaded that there be no commercial exploitation of Dday...