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“A way to make long winter nights slightly brighter, despite the offshore presence of Germans.” Well that came out of nowhere.
by snorrah 8y ago
“A way to make long winter nights slightly brighter, despite the offshore presence of Germans.”
Well that came out of nowhere.
- jpindar 8y agoIt's referring to this, from earlier in the article: > A December 1942 article in The Times — possibly the first mention in this newspaper of the stuff — advised New York City residents that pitchers of evergreen boughs, placed in their windows for the winter holidays, would offer “additional scintillation” if “sprinkled with dime-store ‘glitter’ or mica.” The pitchers were to replace Christmas candles, which the wartime Army had banned after sunset — along with neon signs in Times Square and the light from the Statue of Liberty’s torch — after determining that the nighttime glow threw offshore Allied vessels into silhouette, transforming them into floating U-boat targets.