Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning to get my parents to build a bomb shelter with a removable top that could double as a swimming pool. But after reading about the Davis family [Aug. 18], I decided that it would be much better to die from the bomb's fallout than live in a world ridden with people that would gun down their neighbors...
...Boston one builder lost a $780 contract because he couldn't start digging a small shelter for a panicky citizen the very next day. In Dallas, the Acme Bomb & Fallout Shelters Co. anticipated $100,000 worth of orders in its first month of operation. In Orlando, Fla., Shelter Builder Douglas Bartholow observed: "For two years I've starved in this business. But since Kennedy's defense talk, I've averaged two sales a day at $2,195 each...
...have often pondered the advisability of a bomb shelter, wondering whether survival may not be the most horrible choice. If survival depends upon living with such monsters, Mr. Davis need not worry. I, for one, would not knock on his door...
...Charles W. Sweeney, 41. well-heeled leather manufacturer and a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Previous experience: piloting the B-29 that flew as wing plane on the first atomic strike over Hiroshima and of the one that three days later dropped the even more lethal Nagasaki bomb...
...this season, the umpires were pelted with 500 golf balls. Says Umpire Runge: "Once a lady threw a shoe at me. Generally it's the standard stuff-bottles, garbage, cushions, programs. But I turned white in New York a few weeks ago when someone tossed a four-inch bomb behind...