Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a refuge could quickly be dug 40 feet beneath nearly every house, and these refuges were connected by tunnels. In the end, Castellon was captured by the Rightists (TIME, June 20), but meanwhile Leftist inhabitants made perhaps the best civilian score to date in avoiding death from the air...
...present time motorcars kill 5,000-6,000 people per year, and measles 2,000-3,000. And in view of the fact that people tolerate fast motorcars, and readily preventable diseases, their great objection to being bombed from the air is an interesting psychological fact...
...Large Hole." By what Professor Haldane believes to be scientific standards, King George and Queen Elizabeth last week were taking pathetically inadequate precautions, which will leave them just about at ground level in case of an air raid, not 60 feet down under. Read a United Press dispatch from London: "A bomb and gas-proof shelter is being built in the basement of Buckingham Palace for the King and Queen. It consists of two rooms which formerly were the maids' resting rooms. ... A large hole has been knocked in the wall of the Palace near the shelter to enable...
...Air Raid Precautions...
...unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked men whooped out from the trackside, fired shots in the air and forced their way into the gold car. An accomplice, hidden on the train, joined them as they hurriedly lugged the gold crates to their cars. Then they sped away toward the Italian border...