Word: colhoun
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...cheering throng of Hollywood starlets, gift-laden advertisers and proud neighbors, and out into the bright glare of television lamps and popping flashbulbs. There she smiled winningly at the camera and scooped up a shovelful of light, sandy earth. The occasion: the groundbreaking, Hollywood-style, for Mrs. Ruth Colhoun's private A-bomb shelter...
...Colhoun, a divorcee with three children, was afraid, like many others on the West Coast, that an A-bomb attack would catch her napping. In hundreds of California backyards, sweating husbands and excited children were blistering their hands and straining their backs burrowing into the ground. Overnight, dozens of new construction firms appeared, offering everything from $13.50 foxhole shelters to luxurious $5,500 suites equipped with telephone, escape hatches, bunks, toilets and a Geiger counter. City switchboards were flooded with calls asking for shelter specifications. Newspaper ads exhorted home owners to buy "Life Safes . . . protection for you and your family...
Whether the bombs dropped or not, Californians were sure that the shelters would come in handy. "It will make a wonderful place for the children to play in," beamed proud Mrs. Colhoun. "And it will be a good storehouse, too. I do a lot of canning and bottling in the summer, you know...
...third quarter, Kirkland made the only scoring bid, but was stopped by Colhoun on the 10 yard line. Calhoun did not penetrate past its opponents' yard line throughout the game...
...U.S.S. Bush, Colhoun, Halligan, H. L. Abele and Pringle. *Among the nine targets: the field at Usa, a town from which the Japanese used to export to the U.S. cheap jewelry stamped: "Made...