Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard-students-to-be registering in Memorial Hall were temporarily interrupted early in the afternoon yesterday when the city of Cambridge tested its air raid warning mechanism, which is located on the top of Widener Library. After many attempts during the spring and winter to find a suitable place for the horn, which can be used as a public speaking system as well as a siren, authorities settled on Widener as the best spot in the vicinity, and have held several tests since it was installed...
Lydia H. deRoth, a former air-raid warden in England now working for the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, will address the College on July 8 on protection from enemy assault upon civilians. On July 15 Conservation of consumer goods, savings of scrap, and intelligent buying under a system of scarcity will be the subject discussed...
...office in Manhattan. Yank correspondents will follow the combat units, fight when necessary, rate as fighting men, not correspondents, if captured. Says Executive Editor Captain Hartzell Spence, ex-U.P. promotion manager and author of One Foot in Heaven: "Suppose one of our reporters goes along on a Commando raid. If he comes back we've got a great story. If he doesn't come back we've got a casualty...
With the imminent possibility of a Jap bombing raid hanging over their heads, San Franciscans last week felt a strange, pleasant exhilaration. Oldtimers who saw the 1906 earthquake said that nothing the Japs could do would compare with that. Ever-optimistic Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said: "Why worry? No bombs have fallen...
...March 5, Cambridge blacked-out, and students saw to it that Harvard was "perfectly" darkened, according to Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant. Two months later came the dim-out, as the Square was grayed, and students were asked to draw their shades, to comply with the Army's orders...