Ahem! The lyric is "And the big boys are all spoiling for a fight." That being said, wide boys were black marketers after WWII.
If you are looking at comparative timelines ... In Australia, Cyclone Tracy hit, without warning, around midnight on Christmas Eve 1974, totally destroying the town. The Australian Director of the National Disasters Organisation, and the Minister for the Northern Territory, arrived at Darwin Airport late (around 10.20 p.m.) on Christmas Day and quickly took charge of the relief effort. The Prime Minister, who was on an overseas tour of Europe, basically on the other side of the world, returned within three days landing in Darwin on the morning of 28 December 1975. He then proceeded to Sydney where he chaired a cabinet meeting two days late to determine the response for the medium and long term. Note: I am not comparing the magnitude of the death and destruction, I am just noting the response rate of the Australian Federal government. Maybe the response rate is a function of the differing size of the states? Or maybe it was easier in Australia because Darwin, being the principal town of the Northern territory was administered by the Federal Government anyway (no pesky state or local governments getting in the way)?
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