Word: raids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Berlin authorized German sources said the channel raid was repulsed in a big air battle. The D.N.B. official news agency said the British lost 17 planes, indicating that the air battle was the biggest...
...exhibition at the Vatican is the model of a combination church and air-raid shelter, built of cement with a V-shaped roof, camouflaged, complete with altar, pews, first-aid equipment. Dry comment of the papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano: "An unexpected development in the history of Christian...
...incendiary raid provides fun and excitement in the long dull hours of blackout. Last week's two incendiary raids played to big enthusiastic audiences. Crowds gathered to watch and applaud the gyrating figures advancing with their garbage tops held like shields...
...Raid & Counter-Raid. Two days later, the R. A. F. hunted out the Stuka base at Catania, firing hangars and gasoline dumps, ripping the runways, destroying or damaging some 40 grounded planes. German bombers kept striking back at Malta all week, claiming hits on a cruiser and new hits on the Illustrious, insisting she would be out of action for the rest of the war. The British announced ten German planes shot down over Malta in the first attack, then 15 more, added to their total with every raid. Meanwhile their own bombers hammered away at Catania...
...sales totaled 8,065,090 shares on the exchange floor, 1,032,579 off the floor. Reason: the present thin market on the exchange cannot stand the weight of big offerings. Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all. Selling securities off the exchange is expensive: for handling the Harkness stock the underwriters got 50? a share and the dealers who worked with them got $1 a share (regular brokerage commission would have been 16? a share). But the sellers...