Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methods and organization of Air Raid Precautions in Great Britain were discussed last night by Dr. John E. Gordon, director of the American Red Cross-Harvard Hospital in Salisbury, England, Dr. Gordon who has just returned to America, spoke at a regular meeting of the University ARP course in Emerson Hall, telling of his experiences in bombing raids...
...raid shelters in England are improvised," said the director, "and the people choose their own." He spoke of conditions in London, where the populace immediately preferred subways to prepared structures. The subway platforms are continually packed solidly with people stacked like cord wood, and all efforts to transfer the crowds to other places have been unsuccessful. Londoners stick to the uncomfortable subways, which they feel are safe...
...have had difficulty collecting instances of bomb fright among children," said the doctor. Of 8,000 Bristol school children, only four per cent showed symptoms of terror after air raids. These children were between the ages of one and six, came mostly from broken homes, had been nervous before the raids. Most normal children play air-raid games, sometimes enjoy the excitement. What bothers children more than bombs is disrupted family life...
...great Alabama steel areas (and vice versa); it was the road whose passengers used to be met by grinning waiters with free Sazerac cocktails; it was the road which John W. (Bet-you-a-Million) Gates kidnapped from J. P. Morgan's corral in a spectacular Stock Exchange raid in 1902. Gates made $10,000,000 by selling the stock to J. P. Morgan, who then resold it to Atlantic Coast Line. A.C.L. still owns 51% of L. & N. common...
Target For Tonight (R.A.F. documentary of a bombing raid on Germany; TIME...