Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ninety British bombers flew over France in the second "air-raid" training exercises arranged by the British and French Air Ministries. Forty long-range Wellingtons made a 1,500-mile non-stop cruise to and from Marseille, where large crowds gathered in the streets to watch the demonstration. Lighter bombers cruised over Orleans and Paris. Not bashful were the British in pointing out that the Marseille bombers, had they veered slightly to the left, would have been over Turin, Italy's big munitions-manufacturing city, or had they taken a course directly eastward from Britain would have circled over...
Across the China Sea and far into the interior of Asia, 2,200 miles away, at Chungking, China's temporary capital, the atmosphere seemed brighter, even though half the people had left the city in fear of air raids. There were several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze...
Into thousands of British homes each month goes the creepy A. R. P. News, the "National Journal of Air-Raid Precautions." The magazine offers its readers such helpful articles as "Defense Against Fire," "Removing an Insensible Person (with rather astonishing ease)," "Decontamination of Materials," "The Romance of Cement," and "High Explosive Bombs and Their Effects...
...issue complains that Government-supplied sandbags are of inferior quality and quickly disintegrate) and a mine of cheerless advertising. "An Evertrusty Steel Helmet is an absolute necessity," declares the manufacturer of an extensive line of respirators, decontamination bins, asbestos clothing and safety lamps. "How Many Closets for An Air-Raid Shelter?" asks a maker of chemical toilets who advises everyone to write for his free booklet, Sanitation in Air-Raid Shelters. For protection against fiery thermite bombs home-owners are urged to use Kimoloboard. Other appliances recommended to the reader are Blackout Fabric and steel shutters for windows, first...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...