Word: gasproofed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still has headaches: it lacks authority to force a community to prepare for raids (British authorities can withhold funds for equipment from a town that will not cooperate). Here & there OCD is helpless in a muddle of city politics. It suffers a shortage of certain fire-fighting paraphernalia, of gasproof and decontamination clothing...
...might use gas in his assault on the British Isles, initiated a series of test gas attacks, warned citizens to keep their masks about them, reminded them that the yellow signboards all over the countryside would turn red if blister gas touched them, issued instructions for making rooms relatively gasproof with sticky tape and rubber stripping...
...field pieces fired pointblank into their blockhouses. This week the Germans broke through the Grebbe Line, drove to the sea near Rotterdam, cutting The Netherlands in two. Crown Princess Juliana fled to London with her husband, Prince Bernhard and their children. Princess Irene, aged nine months, traveled in a gasproof box. The Dutch cause shook when it was admitted that resolute Queen Wilhelmina had fled to London, too, and her Government had left The Hague...
...begins in England when war with Germany was only a weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...
...raids, do not take pets to public shelters for human beings; leave them in special gasproof kennels, hutches, stables, pounds. You can buy a pet a fancy gas mask, but you can't make him wear it. - Every residential street has an "animal guard," who is not expected to be in the street while bombs are dropping, but who tends injured animals immediately afterward. After a raid, do not touch wounded pets-they may have mustard gas on them. Call an animal guard or use an R. S. P. C. A. Cat-&-Dog Grasper (long handle with adjustable noose...