Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resumed for two days and then only under a censorship that required broadcasters to submit their script well in advance of air time. Excerpts of what Bert Silen and his relief announcer Don Bell put on the radio telephone in the shiny moonlight during the first raid...
...week's best test of air defenses on the U.S. mainland was caused by a phony air raid on the relatively unthreatened East Coast...
...Francisco, where the air-raid warnings sounded in earnest, the first alarm came at night and no Army planes took off. (Said Brigadier General William O. Ryan, Chief of the Fourth Interceptor Command: "You don't send planes up unless you know what the enemy is doing and where he is going, and you don't send planes up in the dark unless you know what you are doing.") But at Mitchel Field, L.I. the alarm came in daylight, and although it was false the air force took off in good faith to defend New York City...
...bought $38,000,000 in "Governments," thus boosting total holdings to $3,378,000,000-a new high record. The tactic was successful, since the bonds were above par at week's end. Cracked one dealer in Governments: "If the Treasury will take care of false air-raid alarms, we will take care of the Government bond market...
Scoundrel. In London, George Hall was given seven days in jail for "willfully disturbing other persons" in an air-raid shelter by snoring...