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...Kathleen MacDonald had read a lot about the atom bomb, and it made her uneasy. Said she: "Being a widow, there's so little you can do [for protection]. It's different when you have a man to lean on." But one thing Widow MacDonald could do: build a bomb shelter for herself and her twelve-year...
Last week Canada's finest private atom bomb shelter was finished. Although it looked like a simple mound of concrete in Mrs. MacDonald's backyard (see cut), the roof was steel-reinforced and 32 inches thick. Inside, the shelter was 8 by 4 by 6 ft., had six-inch walls and floors of waterproof concrete, was equipped with a food storage locker, oxygen tanks, electric lights. The underground entrance had a 30-inch, lead-lined door fitted with a oneway safety valve to equalize the interior air pressure after a bomb blast...
...Analyst Elmer Davis projected some of the effects of World War No. 9: "Stalin and Molotov are dead, but [Andrei] Vishinsky is getting rich out of his memoirs being published in several American newspapers-his theme being, of course, 'I Was Always Secretly a Menshevik.' " The Russian atom bomb meant for the Gary, Ind. steel mills "was dropped by grave mischance right on the Chicago Tribune Tower . . . Colonel Robert R. McCormick, warned in time, was safe in his underground shelter; but he emerged too soon, in confidence that no European radiations could harm the hero of Cantigny...
...them with fire bombs to dump on Japan from low level. It was a risk that could have wrecked an air fleet and a career, but it caught the Japanese off guard, ripped Tokyo and three other industrial centers as devastatingly (over a period of ten days) as the atom bomb tore up Hiroshima...
...world today cannot keep a happy equilibrium with my gossip and the atom bomb," announced Veteran Telltale Elsa Maxwell, who had decided to give up her column for good. "What is gossip after all but unkind things said, usually not even based on fact or the truth? I can't add all that trouble to those that already exist, so I have taken up my music [she used to play the violin], my best old, old friends and the quiet peace of quiet living...