Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing of London irritates me less than TIME'S article on the Battle of Britain (Sept. 23). You say: ". . . Busses stopped . . . cabbies ducked." This is sheer nonsense for I have ridden many times in both busses and taxis during a raid...
...beginning of the Luftwaffe the decision on stopping busses in a raid was left to the judgment of the individual drivers. Few stopped. Today none stop until a street "spotter" gives the signal...
...parents and children alike, the average daily school attendance was only 26,000. Half of London's grade schools had been battered into rubble or commandeered for other uses. The 365 still open carried on with fewer hours of schooling, in crowded classrooms, their lessons punctuated by air-raid warnings...
...lately unpublicized province of FBI-sabotage, propaganda, espionage. G-Men took cover in the excuse that such doings should be kept under cover, insisted they had everything in hand except the headlines. Texas' Martin Dies flew from lecture to lecture (his platform dates often preceded by a raid whose results were never announced). The G-Men never give lectures...
Across the Ohio River from Louisville, Charlestown, Ind. (pre-defense pop., 850) was bewildered and irritated last week. Du Pont engineers were building for the U. S. Government a vast, sprawling $50,000,000 smokeless-powder plant of 100 buildings (some reportedly underground for air-raid protection) on 6,000 acres of woodland. At first Charlestowners had been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives...