Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spared: Paris, Rome. Some 4,000 British churches were hit. Canterbury suffered glancing blows: the adjoining priory was badly smashed; Exeter Cathedral took a heavy pounding. At Coventry, scene of Germany's first spiteful "Baedeker raid," the cathedral spire stood alone-a stone tree in a stone desert...
Among the Debris. Britain had 551,927 P.W.s still in her charge. Of these some 385,000 are in the United Kingdom, working in the coal mines, harvesting crops, tearing down air-raid shelters and clearing ground for new buildings among the debris left by five years of German bombing. In France, still desperately short of manpower, 700,000 German prisoners are rented out by the Government (at a charge of approximately $1 a day) to private employers. In Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia and the Balkans another 100,000-odd P.W.s are at work...
What had caused the break from 39.78? a lb. to 34.20?? Senator Elmer Thomas (who, Columnist Drew Pearson said, had been speculating in the market under his wife's name) charged that the fall was due to a bear raid, set the Department of Agriculture to investigating. The reason was much simpler: cotton prices were too high, had to fall...
...round up teaching talent, Military Government officers had gone on a two-month raid of the U.S. To many a teacher-starved U.S. board of education, the Government's campaign looked like poaching. For the 120 jobs in Germany, there were over 1,000 applications. Chief lure: an average salary of $4,500 (the same teachers would average $3,000 apiece in U.S. schools). In Germany, room & board will cost about $37.50 a month, and the Army does the teachers' apartment hunting. Other attractions: the trip abroad; the chance to get away from the routine of small-town...
Last week Parade made another raid on the Crowell-Collier reservation. This time Publisher Motley, looking for a new editor, grabbed 33-year-old Ken W. Purdy from his job as editor of Crowell's long-projected international picture magazine. Purdy was tired of waiting for his bosses to decide when to launch their complicated, multilingual project...