Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the Aug. 19 copy of TIME with me into an air-raid shelter, to read during the raid. Have you enough imagination to know what I and my friends felt, upon reading your piece about "Britain's Vulnerable Midlands," and seeing the accompanying map? That, and your piece about the war in British Somaliland, should tell your German friends practically all they want to know about us, their enemy...
...official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order. The Yugoslav Government finally signed a watered-down economic agreement with the Reich and Foreign Minister Dr. Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch announced that he was willing to collaborate economically and politically with the Axis. It was not collaboration but submission that...
...accused the Nazis of showering germs over London. Instead, disease bar rages were being fired by Londoners at each other in their dank, ill-ventilated, evil-smelling air-raid shelters, where hundreds of thousands huddled together every night - young & old, sick & well, with only makeshift toilet facilities and no chance to perform personal hygiene...
...everyone knew that Britain's aircraft production was still half Germany's, that the Nazis could raid by thousands while the R. A. F. must still husband its scores and hundreds. Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express came flatly out with the admission that aircraft production had seriously declined due to bombardment...
...total of 327,000 tons shot out of British merchant convoys by U-boats last week-26 ships out of one convoy. The Germans claimed a foray by their motor-torpedo boats close to the British coast which sank more tonnage, took 40 Britons prisoner. They claimed another raid by German destroyers in the mouth of Bristol Channel, in which they engaged a British cruiser squadron, torpedoing one vessel. They said they sank a British submarine off Le Havre. They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled up in Dover. There were stories...