Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the raid, car prices dropped. A 1942 Cadillac, for which $4,500 had been offered the night before, went begging for $2,750. Said OPA: car prices on Automobile Row were "close to OPA ceilings" for the first time since...
...rumored to have a mistress). He has chosen ex-King Peter's palace at Bled for his summer residence, ex-Regent Paul's Bell Dvor (White Palace) on Belgrade's Dedinje Hill for his town house (it has Belgrade's only good air-raid shelter...
...pictures illustrated Japanese triumphs. Among the best was Raid on Pearl Harbor (painted from an aerial photograph) by Fujita, a little man in bangs and Harold Lloyd spectacles who once wowed Paris with his brush drawings of cats and catlike women. Other standouts: Junkichi Mukei's Bataan Death March and Hoshin Yamaguchi's General Attack on Hong Kong, which had an Oriental delicacy of line only partly obscured by smoke from the burning city...
Pleased as punch over the raid, OPA guesstimated that the Leesville "circus" had handled $100 million in black-market cars. It was OPA's biggest catch of the year...
Liberated Teachers. Barr plans to borrow a few faculty members from St. John's, persuade some recent St. Johnnies to try their hand at teaching, and raid established schools to "liberate oppressed minorities" who believe in the St. John's way. A teaching task-force from "College X" will invade the nearest city, bring the great books to grownups who are too old or too busy to go to college...