Word: extinguishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private signs, shops fronts or other means of lighting publicity displayed shall be blacked out. All occupants of premises with lighting on time switches shall be directed to extinguish them at or before 10:00 p.m., March 5, 1942. In case of movie houses, theatres, and other places of amusement, the management shall be responsible for prompt blackout of all exterior lighting promptly...
...March 5, 1942 occupants of all premises or parts of premises, public and private, shall extinguish all lights or darken the premises so that no light is visible from the outside...
...managers, superintendents or persons in control of hotels, apartments, office buildings and all other places of multiple occupancy tenants' rooms at multiple occupancy and use shall extinguish all lights whether in public places, or in tenants rooms at 10:00 p.m. on March...
...wanted to contemplate the day when whistling explosives might make piles of smoking trash out of U. S. buildings, craters in U. S. streets. But few dared say that such things were impossible in the world of 1941. An organization of U. S. fire-watchers, trained to extinguish incendiary capsules, would be part of the program, but far down on the list. The first thing would be to organize civilians for the defense program's duller essentials: to meet the problems of new cantonments, vast new industries. Adequate housing must be established in little towns that were becoming seething...
...bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick up the fin end of the bomb, whack it sharply on the ground and decapitate it. It takes about three minutes properly to extinguish a bomb by the first three methods. The fourth is instantaneous...