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...Library of Congress, were put this week in their permanent home in the National Archives Exhibition Hall. Their home is a big glass showcase which, at the touch of a button, sinks slowly through the floor into a huge vault in the cellar. The 50-ton safe, a bombproof, thiefproof, fireproof stronghold with 15-in. thick walls and 5-ton armored doors will keep the historic documents as safe as the gold in Fort Knox. By day, the documents will be on exhibition; at night, they will repose in the $30,000 vault built by the Mosler Safe...
Even city officials were thinking about going underground. Los Angeles city planners were looking into the possibility of making three proposed underground garages bombproof enough to shelter 90,000 people in an attack. The county board of supervisors ordered immediate construction of an $80,000 storage room for microfilm records, and tax assessors worked out new rates for dugout-equipped homes...
...would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables which New York banks now have stored in their vaults. The vaults, sunk in solid Manhattan Island rock as deep as five stories down, are bombproof...
...point out) his Chicago Tribune is published deep in the heart of the U.S., Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick feels a little unsafe. Last week the Trib reported to its readers that when the first atomic bomb falls on Chicago, 3,000 Tribune Tower employees will have a bombproof hole to scamper into. For his atomic shelter, the Colonel set aside the second basement of the Tower, "a room massively walled and ceiled with heavy concrete and steel beams...
Moody, Mad Thing. Jack Paar lives in an improbable little world of satire filled with musclebound lady wrestlers, bombproof subterranean love nests and amorous girl gym teachers. Political commentators in Paar scripts have great difficulty "predicting" that Friday will follow Thursday; small boys expect to be rewarded with refrigerators when they answer questions in history class. Because U.S. institutions are Paar's target, a Paar grammar school administration drums up business with radio commercials ("Children! Have you tried the seventh grade...