Word: bombproofing
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...that factory production might be interrupted as little as possible, "industrial watchers" from among their own ranks were posted by workers, to give the to-shelter alarm only when bombs, seemed actually about to fall. To get more sleep, British householders were encouraged to build new bombproof shelters directly attached to their dwellings, with water, light and other facilities let in from the home supply...
...under the English Channel from Calais to Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more...
...land. It is embraced by two treacherous rivers, whose water level has been known to change as much as 40 feet in one night. Eight months in the year it is roofed with dense fog. Built on a rock 750 feet high, it is honeycombed with deep, bombproof caverns, with room for 200,000. But the Chinese never learn. They still think standing under trees makes them safe from bombs. They still think it is better to stay where money circulates than be safe and poor in the country...
...Cairo, Egypt, the mummy of 3,000-year-old King Tutankhamen, snugly wrapped in cotton wool, was gently removed to the basement of the Cairo Museum, to a secret bombproof tomb...
...untrained observers. He glorified the German air force; pooh-poohed the Allied blockade. Said he matter-of-factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured out of their bombproof shelters into the vicinity of military objectives and had been injured by their own shells and shrapnel falling on them; signed off with his usual "This is E. D. Ward IN Berlin...