Word: arps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard last week over many a British loudspeaker: "You people are so safe, you imagine. We know where your ARP stations are, but our bombers could get you before you got there!" The wave length was Hamburg's but Britons had a vile suspicion that the broadcasts came from "somewhere in England," were perhaps a belated Nazi-planted reply to the irrepressible German Freedom Radio (TIME...
...ARP air raid shelter available for Elizabeth Arden clients. . . . Rest is no longer assured but -[modern woman] must guard against tired nerves which bring new lines to her face...
...ARP. No more reassuring was the Government's own ARP (Air Raids Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
...last week citing incidents which helped explain this terrific casualty. Like the ostrich, the Chinese believes that if he cannot see his attacker, he is safe. When Changsha was bombed, citizens rushed under trees and dived into bushes, murmuring thanks for their safety. Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha. There police systematically shot every dog they could find because the city's elders decided that their barking attracted Japanese bombing planes...
...helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks-can supply their young with filtered air. To get the babies accustomed to the new "toys," British ARP (Air Raid Precaution) officials suggest that mothers begin right now to "play peekaboo" with their infants through the helmets' mica windows...