People are no damn good.

We're devotees of Foyle's War, a British TV series about police work in Hastings, England, during World War II. The episode we watched just now made me anxious because it was about a UXB team and I was positive the soldiers we'd grown to care about were going to get blown to kingdom come.

"A War of Nerves" is chiefly about war profiteering. The writers relied on actual happenings in the United Kingdom during the war for the plot. You can read a little about the fraud committed by the powers that be at F.H. Porter, Ltd., in this February 1942 article from a New Zealand newspaper.