Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first night in Moscow, Hopkins saw an air raid. He stepped out on a balcony to watch the Luftwaffe come over. Next night the Nazis came again. This time Hopkins did not stop to see the fun: he went below for three hours, until the raid was over. Touring the city afterwards, he said he was amazed at the "insignificant damage" done by Hitler's bombers...
Last week London got its first and only bombing during July. After 32 peaceful nights the 2 a.m. alert signal-567th since the war began-so startled many Londoners that they turned on their lights before pulling their blackout curtains and got a dressing down from the air-raid wardens...
...haphazard, seemingly crazy raid by only a few bombers, blasting a number of private homes, killing many citizens with a direct hit on a shelter holding 120. Wags suggested that the Nazis put on the show for excitable, visiting Columnist Dorothy Thompson, who attended it from her fifth-floor windows in the Savoy Hotel (see p. 21). But it was a poor show and after it Columnist Thompson snorted: "It was . . . not nearly so noisy as a New York thunderstorm...
This week the R.A.F. reciprocated London's raid by sending over 200 to 300 planes to bomb Berlin and give Berliners a night underground...
...raid alarm for the private home, estimated price $15, was last week demonstrated by R.C.A. President David Sarnoff to Civilian Defense Director Fiorello LaGuardia. The gadget: a box the size of a portable radio which rings a bell and flashes a light when a radio warning signal is sent...