Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ripper's first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...
...levees and earthen dams. Soil engineers and chemists now study design of military airports, use of cemented soils for runways (TIME, Nov. 17). And a cell first designed to measure pressures within earthen dams is now used by the Army to record effects of explosions on experimental air-raid shelters...
They did. Across 400 miles of Sumatran jungles the weary party straggled in trucks. From northwest Sumatra to a port of embarkation for Batavia they traveled in pony carts, spurred on by native tomtoms pounding out an air-raid warning. At the port Yates McDaniel saw "the most beautiful sight I ever expect to see a British destroyer hull down on the horizon, steaming full speed toward the harbor." The destroyer carried them to Batavia, where, for the first time in eleven days, Yates McDaniel could file his story, then crawl into...
Harvard held its second practice air raid yesterday afternoon, and, according to Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University who was in charge of the practice, "All those who volunteered did excellent jobs." Durant added that "although there were a few rough spots, I am pleased with the entire performance...
...raid officially started at 3:11 o'clock with the sounding of the warning siren, and the all clear was given at 4:10. Volunteer messengers scattered "incidents" throughout the University, probably more incidents, Durant, said, than would ordinarily occur in an average raid over such a localized area...