Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin dwellers had no specially constructed air-raid shelters. They had been told it would be enough to go to a rein forced room in their basements, or just stay indoors while anti-aircraft guns, with which Berlin apartment houses and office buildings ostentatiously bristled, would tear to bits any Britisher who dared the Reich's might...
Last week such signs were not evident in Britain. Railroad officials said their lines had not yet suffered any major dislocation. Lord Beaverbrook said production of fighters and bombers was never so high. Food was plentiful. Civilian morale was good. Life in London air-raid shelters was almost carnival-in its first fortnight (see p. 2p). But it was a weird, unnatural life, even for the birds, which awoke and sang when searchlights turned night into day. It was nerve-racking and man-consuming-air war of attrition in which the emphasis seemed to be shifting from losses of planes...
Moving on to an anti-aircraft battery, to an Air Raid Precautions station, to Hammersmith's, London's big dance hall, the program was effective...
Said Eric Severeid from Hammersmith's: "There are 1,500 people in this place at the moment; it's 15 minutes before mid night and that's the wartime closing hour for Saturday night. There was an air raid alarm, as you know, 15 minutes ago. The orchestra leader simply announced they'd go on playing as the crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following...
...with 10,000 issues traded, is the London Stock Exchange. For war "The House," as Londoners call its huge six-story building, has corrugated metal shutters on the windows, slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest of London hears an air-raid siren's wail, a, special Klaxon stops the traders. They gather their books and scurry to their City offices, all less than half a mile away. Only red-and-blue liveried "waiters" (runners) are left on the echoing floor. So called because 18th-Century brokers did their trading...