Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
Surabaya, Java, for air-raid shelters, recently dug trenches, screened them with bamboo as protection against bomb splinters and flying debris. Last week travelers from Java reported that a few weeks after the shelters were built pleased natives wrote a letter of thanks to the Government. "Thank you very much for the new W.C.s," said the letter. "We have needed them for a long time." Dutch officers hastily inspected the new shelters, found the letter was no joke...
London's raid routine (when the Germans are coming over as they did during the last half of 1940) is stiff as a timetable. The Alert is sounded about at the end of dinner, the All Clear at about dawn. There is another warning by 8 a.m., several more during the morning, one at noon as sure as etiquette (which cheats no Londoner out of his lunch). During the afternoon those who care to may usually witness a "dogfight"; then, from 4 p.m. until dark, it is ordinarily quiet. Each metropolitan dusk, in that suspended silence and foreboding...
...financing or even seeming to finance the war is enormous. Besides the $50,000,000-a-day cost of fighting, there are interminable extras. Some ?60,000,000 ($240,000,000) has been spent on air-raid shelters, public and private. Government payrolls are hugely swollen. (The Food Ministry alone eats up $18,000,000 annually, the Ministry of Information...
Wrote Shirer in Berlin: "We had our first big air raid of the war last night. . . . For the first time British bombers came directly over the city, and they dropped bombs. . . . Not a plane was brought down. . . , There was a pellmell, frightened rush to the cellars by the five million people who live in this town...