Letters to America

Wednesday, October 8th, 1941

  1. Radio City is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
  2. Rupert Bear is an English children's comic strip character. It first appeared in the Daily Express newspaper in 1920.
  3. Blackout regulations were imposed on 1 September 1939, before the declaration of war. These required that all windows and doors should be covered at night with suitable material such as heavy curtains, cardboard or paint, to prevent the escape of any glimmer of light that might aid enemy aircraft. External lights such as street lights were switched off, or dimmed.
  4. An allotment is a small area of land in a town which a person rents to grow plants and vegetables on.