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Moscow Saved. In the deep, bombproof shelters of the Kremlin, the dictator faced up to a frightened group of party sycophants. Outside in the streets of Moscow the angry, dismayed mob was ready to tear them limb from limb. Stalin was forced to yield all military decisions to the man with the highest professional qualifications in Russia: Georgy Zhukov. Zhukov's first decision: save Moscow...
Under his benevolent dictatorship, the Trib's 4,700 well-paid employees learned to expect from their boss the best in office housing and printing equipment. He even provided for his staff in case of an atomic attack, set aside a deep basement of Tribune Tower as a bombproof shelter stocked with cans of pineapple. Characteristically, he announced: "The best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...
...readers what the U.S. is really like. "It is horrifying," wrote Champion, who had set foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only in small classified...
...business records be kept for from one to ten years have given Mosler's sales a big boost. (In ten years, they have more than tripled.) Another big sales stimulator has been the atom bomb. For such customers as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Mosler has built a bombproof stronghold for records 30 feet below Metropolitan's Manhattan headquarters, which even a direct hit will not destroy. (A Mosler vault in Hiroshima's Teikoku Bank, only 300 yards from the center of the atom bomb's blast, was unbreached, and the bank was rebuilt around...