Word: depot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midtown Topeka, one of the few large structures left standing for blocks around was a ten-story insurance building audaciously emblazoned "A Refuge in Time of Storm"-yet it too was gutted, and may have to be razed. Buses at the city depot were piled one atop the other like crushed ants. At the airport, 15 light planes lay scattered, stamped flat. Though the state capital lay outside the storm's path, the pressure shattered windows and smashed a hole the size of a locomotive in the dome. Total damage: at least $100 million...
Sandbags & Gravel. The U.S. Defense Department, which uses Okinawa as its major offshore supply depot for troops in Viet Nam, has an inventory there of $250 million in military hardware, but nevertheless it intends to spend another $13.8 million in Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese...
...applicants turned up when the jobs were advertised. In Japan, the Yokosuka naval shipyard is jammed with U.S. Navy repair orders, and work is being let out to civilian yards. Both Taiwanese and Japanese plants are repairing U.S. and Vietnamese planes. On Okinawa, because of the supply depot, 1,000 civilian jobs have opened up, and there is a sudden demand for domestic servants for U.S. families...
...linen depot is Matthews Hall last night, but without very much linen. After less than as hour of operation, angry freshmen flooded the CRIMSON with visits and phone calls, calling for an end to what one '69er called "sheety inefficiency...
About 100 students were turned away from the depot between 7:00 and 2:30 p.m., the depot's normal closing time, trudging home to re-make their beds with dirty sheets. For some, it was the second consecutive night: the Matthews depot ran out just at closing time Monday...