Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid by the Government...
Major General William D. Connor, superintendent of the Military Academy, without giving any reason, announced: "Hereafter the eligibility rules which obtain at Annapolis and the leading civilian colleges in the country will be applied in determining the eligibility of cadets to play upon the athletic teams of the Military Academy...
...anticipation of the President's budget message to the regular session-was $500,000,000 from the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation for the current fiscal year. Others were $100,000,000 from the PWA's appropriation of $600,000,000, $75,000,000 from the Civilian Conservation Corps's $275,000,000. With the addition of other minor cuts along the line, as well as the $112,000,000 asked by the President from its road-building largesse to the States, the total curtailment would be about $800,000,000-roughly what the Treasury estimates...
...Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought I was a goner...