Word: dover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although all of the documentaries are grim reminders of the tragic significance of the war for Britain, not one is without its leavening of dry humor. There is a lift to the way a Dover anti-aircraftman dismisses the daily shelling by Nazi big guns across the Channel. Says he: "Aye, we see a flash, count 60, and there...
...Joyce '42, of Senior House and Gloucester, House Chairman, and other members of the Network will explain the operation of the broadcasting apparatus and conduct typical broadcasts at intervals throughout the day. A group of hostesses, under Miss Mary Whittier of Dover, will also be on hand to show the studios and welcome the guests. Visitors will be afforded an opportunity to make souvenir recordings of their voices at a nominal charge for discs...
...keep German submarines bottled up in 1917-18, all the British had to do was guard the narrow Straits of Dover and the mouth of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway-altogether a blockade front of only 300 sea miles. Before the war ended, this entire front was covered by a mine barrage. This time the Germans took Norway, and France fell. From Narvik to Bayonne, 2,300 sea miles, the Germans had their choice of ports. The chart shows how sinkings spurted after the Germans took over Norwegian and French bases...
...Dover...
...hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...