Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months of V1, military scientists were more impressed than ever with robomb potentialities. "The importance of the V-weapons," wrote Hanson W. Baldwin, military columnist of the New York Times, summing up battlefront reports, "increases...
...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...
...like that all night. There must have been a buzz bomb or a piloted plane raid somewhere every five minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced...
...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...