Word: bombproofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months past, rumors of military misdoings had been piling up around Selfridge Field, Mich. Griping and gossip centered on ugly stories of unsoldierly behavior, favoritism, trading in promotions and bombproof jobs. Then came the most fantastic rumor of all: that the commander of the field, a full colonel, had been arrested for shooting a Negro private...
...least 95% of science museums' collections will remain in their museums throughout the war. Curators were busy last week at other jobs than warehousing: Smithsonian scientists, for example, were prospecting for metals in Mexico, devising instruments for the Navy, doing other tasks which were as secret as their bombproof caches...
...Became a "bombproof shelter" for masterpieces from all sections of the country...
...better prepared to withstand siege than the city itself. In its bombproof underground vaults are vast quantities of fuel, mines, shells. In the cold-storage sheds there is enough food for all the officers and men of the British Far Eastern Fleet for several months. All the buildings are solidly constructed and every workshop is safe against bomb blast and splinters...
...Center, providently built six years ago with lavish backing by Art Patroness Alice Bemis Taylor, contains ample storage space for 2,000 paintings, is honeycombed with strong-walled concrete galleries, corridors and sub-basements. Last week, masterpieces from San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. were making for that bombproof shelter at the rate...