Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protection of buildings against bomb splinters Britain now has on hand 127,000,000 sandbags. For civilian protection the Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...
...picture represented 55 solid balls of concrete pyramided above sandbags piled on a segment of sewer pipe. When a 1,200-pound dummy bomb (Germany has some real ones weighing 2,200 pounds) was dropped on this monument, the only thing which had to be replaced was Concrete, Ltd.'s concrete balls. Another picture showed upright tapered steel outhouses onto which a brick wall was toppled without so much as denting them. These shelters were labeled: ARP CONSOL-Suitable Shelter for Key Personnel. Non-key personnel are supposed to be hiding in cellars...
Only woman writing powerful dramas on Broadway today is blonde, 33-year-old Lillian Hellman. In 1934 she burst like a bomb over Broadway with her first play, the gripping, scandalous, tragic The Children's Hour. But for years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead...
...real mystery about the whole affair, however, centers on the identity of the person who could have put the bomb on the stairs. The door was locked all night, and the only persons who have keys are those connected with Wolff's and Marks, and the janitor of the building...
When asked about the dangers of the expedition, he replied, "I have been told that There are many bandits in that region but I doubt that they will bother me particularly. The thing that most concerns me is the Japanese, who may bomb the main railway line. In that case I will proceed by car, mule-pack, or on foot. I am travelling along because in the first place it will be easier to get through; then, too, it is less expensive...