Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refining Co. Ltd.'s rich pitchblende field in the Northwest Territories' Great Bear Lake region. Eldorado's lode, which has put Canada in the forefront of uranium producers, was expropriated by the government in January 1944. At the same time it clapped a total security blackout on all atomic activities...
Prospectors who discover uranium will be caught immediately in the government's atomic blackout. Finds may be reported only to Canada's Atomic Energy Control Board or the Mines and Resources Department. While the government will permit a prospector to stake and exploit his claim, he may not disclose its location or existence. Maximum penalty for violation: a $10,000 fine and five years' imprisonment...
Italy's communist-directed typographers' strike ended yesterday after a four-day news blackout...
...building and grounds department discovered during the initial blackout that a transformer in a vault under Winthrop House was overloaded and was blowing out the system. Yesterday, electricians went down to move some of the load to another transformer and had to put the lights out again for a few minutes...
During London's 1941 blackout, when going out or staying home was more perilous than it had ever been before, Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...