Word: midweek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus one, the Zoological Society's council, which runs the Regent's Park Zoo, decided to build a new elephant house, put the parrots on its upper floor, move the insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...
Viscount Cranborne, Dominions Secretary and Government Leader of the House of Lords, announced the impending operation at midweek, when he all but succeeded Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary (see col. 3). He soon learned that he would have to wait awhile for a War Cabinet portfolio. But his words on the Charter carried full weight: "The Government are at present proposing an initiation of discussions with their Allies. . . . The Dominion Prime Ministers will be here in the near future and no doubt they will have something to say. . . .To anticipate these discussions by a unilateral declaration would not be helpful...
...midweek Secretary Hull trudged firmly up the Capitol steps to try to answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
...three days' operations last week, U.S. bombers and fighters, flying from Britain and Italy, shot down 268 Nazi planes. By midweek a major American sweep over Nazi airfields and "mystery targets" in France sent hundreds of heavy and medium bombers out and back with out ever sighting an enemy aircraft...
...More Travels? The news of his illness broke, in midweek, in the House of Commons. In an atmosphere of solemn concern there was strong talk of making sure that henceforth the Prime Minister stay at home, that future conferences be held in London. Since war began, Churchill has traveled about 70,000 miles to talk with other statesmen. Britons thought this was not only an enormous lot but quite enough. Churchill may be of a different opinion...