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...Score. The summer's lull in bombing has been all on one side, for the R.A.F. has conducted a steady crescendo in raids over Germany. Yet British plane losses in all theaters are still substantially less than those of the Axis. The figures compiled by the British...
What did the longest lull on record mean...
...muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
...will have to settle down to the tougher task of building ships and shipyards faster than it has ever built them before. With every yard already crowded, U. S. shipbuilders are talking about their boom. Soon they will look back to March of 1941 as a period of lull...
...Paris gaily played Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, How You Can Love! At the tables handsome flying Johnnies, naval Jacks in full dress, guardsmen, territorials, and just plain civics sat making conversational love. The service men were making the most of leave; the civilians were making the most of the lull in bombings of London...