Word: bombproofing
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...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...
...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...