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Britain's bombing of Lubeck, its blasting of Rostock, its raids last, week on Kiel and Trondheim, its repeated daytime raids on Occupied France were not like the raids which the R.A.F. had made intermittently and hit-or-missly for two years. This was the Business. It differed in technique and, above all, it differed in scale from all British bombing that went before. It compared with Hitler's blitz on Britain in the fall of 1940 -only it was bigger...
...R.A.F.'s technique is new in other respects. Instead of trying for pinpoint targets and bringing bombs home if they cannot be found, the R.A.F. is now going after the whole industrial districts of towns like Rostock, which they hit four nights in succession (TIME, May 4). Moreover the weight of bombs dropped on Rostock because of bigger planes and repeat visits was 800 tons compared to the 530 tons dropped on Coventry...
Most pulverizing British air attack since the R.A.F. punished the Baltic port of Lübeck in March occurred at another Baltic port, Rostock, 60 miles away. In one hour one night British airmen dropped the "greatest weight of bombs" ever delivered in one package by the R.A.F. The following night the British were back again. The night after that, and the night after that, they were back yet again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently...
...turned westward from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going) on Nazi bombers who attack them at home. Nonetheless...
...Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After a few months a new character was needed and Mrs. Hoople's husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly...