Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite spotty weather, a total of more than 1,000 bombers left England to raid Europe in five consecutive nights last week. Three hundred took off in one night alone. This was heavy, but it seemed unlikely that 50% of the Luftwaffe's fighters were meeting the British raiders. A more probable figure: 20%. If the Air Ministry was guilty of exaggeration, it was to meet another British offensive-the people's, for action to relieve Russia...
...from fire towers in Massachusetts, from skyscrapers in Manhattan, on lonely farms in Pennsylvania, on sandy knolls along the Virginia coast, from 1,600 posts along the Atlantic seaboard, 40,000 pairs of civilian eyes peered at the sky. These volunteer watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S. They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything from...
...Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area. He shuttles planes about at will, cannot be gainsaid by officers in the field...
Enormously popular after Show Boat, Helen Morgan often got as much as $2,500 for one singing of Bill. During Prohibition she was in constant difficulty with Government snoopers; several nightclubs that she owned were smashed up. After each raid, the names of the Morgan clubs were changed. What started simply as The Helen Morgan Club became the Chez Helen Morgan, Helen Morgan's Summer Home, and finally, with Repeal...
...queens are murdered with their own G-strings in a Manhattan burlesque house. The cast: chorines, strippers, comedians, gangsters, impresarios, doorman. The scenes include a drunken backstage brawl to celebrate the installation of new blue plumbing in the ladies' room, and a touching moment in jail, after a raid, when one strippeuse douses her bra in the cold sink water as the only available substitute for the ice with which she usually firms her breasts...