Word: bombproofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built by a Glendale contractor named Victor J. Nelson. The Nelson shelter was an above-ground type, attracted gapers, no buyers. But Nelson has plans for underground shelters, too, which the Defense Council has tentatively approved. Meanwhile in Hollywood Cinemactress Deanna Durbin is already building a house with a bombproof shelter. Miss Durbin said she didn't order it; the architect just put it in of his own accord...
Part of the cargo of the S.S. City of Flint, the ship seized by the Germans in 1939, consisted of Winchargers destined for Eire to be used in lighting bombproof shelters...
...island of Malta was used as a vast hospital for wounded Allies. But this forbidding rock offers thin hospitality in this war. Angry are its forts, its schools of mines crowding ten miles out to sea, its anti-aircraft guns, its airdromes with hangars sheltered by bombproof rock quarries, its harbor-mouths teethed with 10-, 14-, 16-inch guns, its dockyard, its seaplane and sub marine bases...
Into full production last week went one of the first new plants built especially for defense. It is long, low, windowless. air-conditioned, fireproof and allegedly bombproof, cost $1,000,000. Its site: Harvey, Ill. Its builder: the 60-year-old Buda (pronounced bewda) Co., a Diesel-building pioneer. Its product: a Diesel for U. S. Army tanks. The reason this plant reached full production last week was that an oil wildcatter was willing to take a chance...
Meanwhile Guiberson had made a licensing deal with Buda. For Buda, which has less than $2,000,000 in other defense orders (generator sets and Diesels for the Navy), the Guiberson business soon became the biggest thing on its horizon. Last August they broke ground for the new "bombproof" plant. This month it had $8,000,000 of Guiberson tank engine orders, and 350 men worked three shifts daily to get production up to a promised eight...