Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started blowing up around Ed Woodruff. The Association of Commerce appointed a committee to investigate vice, and the committee called on the State's Attorney, who in turn shouted for a grand jury. The Army complained about Peoria's prostitutes and the FBI made a white-slave raid. All this was bad enough. But when Peoria discovered that gamblers, barmen and madams were showing interest in the reform candidate, it decided that Ed Woodruff had lost his steam. Last week Peoria voted, Laundryman Triebel won. Woodruff ran a bad fourth...
...addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...
...veteran who got his Pacific baptism by fire at Angaur, then landed with MacArthur on Leyte -Battlefronts Writer John Walker. And from this same exploding front comes another TIME correspondent - who covered 30,000 miles of ocean in five months, was on 17 Navy vessels, eyewitnessed the first raid on Manila and the carrier strikes at Palau and Morotai. His name is Bill Gray...
...raid wardens from Maine to Miami woke up. Inactive for many months, they now had the word of burly Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, that robomb attacks on the East Coast were not only "possible but probable" within the next month or two. Said Jonas Ingram...
...ablaze. B-29s from western China struck an aircraft factory at Omura, in southwestern Japan, and droned seven hours over occupied Nanking. Others, from India, hit at Bangkok. Still others, from Saipan, worked on the unfinished business of wrecking aircraft factories at Nagoya, and kept Tokyo's air-raid wardens sleepless, night...