Word: heat
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Problems of health mounted with the hours spent in the rank, fetid air underground. Few shelters had adequate heat, light or latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...
...Europe this winter no ordinary citizen will travel far in his own country except toward war or exile: coal is scarce. Few will have enough heat. Fewer still will eat enough food, for Europe's food supply is reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never...
...blockade had cut off more than 80% of Italian imports, 90% of imports of oil and fats. The cotton reserve would be exhausted by the end of 1940, rubber and wool shortly thereafter. The price charged by Germany for coal hauled across the Alps made heat a luxury...
Said Poetaster Hearst, by way of apology: "It is often very warm in southern Spain. And sometimes the heat affects a traveler's head. It was in such a moment of aberration that [these] verses - largely imaginative - were written by your columnist...
...last week's big race, Roy Richter's Richter Streamliner blew two tires. But when the last heat had been chalked up, Richter's racer had won the championship -at a speed of 67,085 m.p.h...