Word: robombing
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...With robomb speed the news swept feminine Britain-hips will henceforth be streamlined, busts will again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace...
This official robomb short includes some astutely quiet shots: of placid wheat, a blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full...
...into action in a familiar job. Overseas they manned six stations in South England ports, protected docks. The men wore uniforms, drew Army pay, 20 married British brides. In two years they lost only one man-John Stewart Coull, 37, Winnipeg, who was killed last July by a robomb...
...September, . harassed London breathed a great sigh and shook hands with itself. The Canadian Army had overrun the robomb coast across the Channel: the hellish Things had stopped diving on the city and its environs. A week of blessed peace and quiet followed. Then the Things started coming again...
...whole story about V1, the German flying bomb, was told last week by the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. An ingenious machine that can be built for less than $1,000, the robomb was revealed to be much more accurate than the British had previously cared to admit...