Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Razzia" (The Raid), made in 1947, marked the return of the German movie industry to the competitive American market. The story itself is based on documentary reports of black-market transactions in Berlin. Director Werner Klinger took his camera crew to the actual locale to shoot the picture...
...word "Razzia" is Italian for "police raid" and came into accepted usage in many European countries shortly after...
Then came the time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...
...Foujita abruptly turned his back on all that and took off for Tokyo; he was afraid the Germans would bomb Paris. When the Pacific war came he was conscripted to paint combat pictures at $33.76 a month. Among the most popular was Raid on Pearl Harbor, done from an aerial photograph. He was bombed out of his Tokyo studio; his black bangs turned to silver. At war's end he shipped a show to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947) to raise money for a trip...
...Take Four." But Brownie was confident. He admitted that he had once been a member of the K.K.K., but swore that he had resigned. When was that? Well, the end of June (three weeks after the McDanal raid). Anyway, the night of the raid he was at a ball game, and he had three witnesses to prove...