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...personnel in the College set up will be the paid University employees. They will be in charge of the student wardens. According to Cronin, if an atomic bomb landed within 25 miles, a professor or a University employee would lead a small band of student wardens there to assist in rescue work...
...Cronin first became familiar with disaster work during the hurricane of 1938 which caused wide-spread damage to the New England coast. At the time, he headed a disaster relief committee which worked to restore communications and transportation...
Rescue workers, Cronin noted, feverishly went to work hacking away at the trees with axes and tiny saws; no one bothered to get a power say. This ill preparedness, he said, taught him to organize early and to have all equipment ready long before the trouble...
During World War II, Cronin was direction of Civilian Defense but, despite elaborate preparations, not a bomber came in sight. In October 1948, City Manager John B. Atkinson asked him to reactivate a skeleton force of 150 key men from World...
...Cronin set up a staff much greater than this figure so that if a bomb had dropped on Greater Boston in 1948 or 1949, he would have been able to got 600 wardens on the street...