Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public-health activities, in connection with State health departments, were sponsored in country regions of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Oklahoma. Some of these communities had never paid much mind to medical guardians. "In Seminole County [Okla.] ... it took a midnight raid with flashlight photographs to put an end to the bootlegging of forbidden grades of milk. ... In another [county] a sanitation officer persuaded the authorities of a little city to do something about their water supply by the good old device of putting dyestuff down a suspected privy and watching it color the water of the spring whence the citizens...
...Thirty-one Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...
...special delegate to go over details of the munitions trade. Slowly the Japanese have also waked up to the importance of Lanchow. Last week they decided to do something about it. For three days Japanese aviators bombed the city, sending over as many as 101 airplanes in one raid. The Japanese claimed to have destroyed the big Lanchow airdrome, and with it many Chinese planes. Chinese retorted that the Japanese aviators, as usual, had singled out only Lanchow's civilian population for attack...
...Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus disaster; best news commentators, H. V. Kaltenborn, Raymond Gram Swing...
...time to marry 40-year-old Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, relict of an International Harvester official. He reputedly spent $250,000 on the Washington debut of his stepdaughter in the depth of Depression I. Sickly, he twice explained profitable sales of his Cities Service stock, once during a bear raid, and again to his employes, by intimating in Government investigations and in court that he was in fear of death, wanted his affairs in order...