Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second of these fantasmagerias (whew!) will be the mass Officer evacuation from "the big city" of Cambridge. The trains, busses, and taxis will be jammed with the happy exodus, while wailing hostesses pout fretfully as they cling to the walls of their respective USO, AOC and various and sundry organizations of recreation...
Food was seriously short. From some districts a mass exodus of the homeless and the frightened began. The long lines wound through the streets to the suburbs, where the trains functioned from undamaged stations...
...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
Pictures of the Class of '45 will start being taken some time soon in order to get all photographs finished before the exodus expected at the end of the semester...
...hold all of Italy, they feebly hoped that Mussolini's successors might be able to prevent the use of Italian air, naval and troop bases for continental attack. The Allies, determined to have these bases, warned Italians that all-out air raids were near, and precipitated a mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked of a "wall of blood" around the shaken Reich...