Word: gasproofed
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...homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week Army officers and town mayors hustled around to talk prices...
Fight-Minded Finland. After stalking over all Europe, Mr. Knickerbocker found only one nation with the seesoo (guts) to fight Soviet traders, namely Finland.* In Helsingfors. the resolute Finnish populace was found to be building poison-gasproof rooms in private homes, factories, hotels and hospitals. The idea: Leningrad is only one hour by plane from Helsingfors. At any moment a Soviet air fleet may appear over the Finnish capital, loose gas bombs. On hotel tables at Helsingfors are round green receptacles for coins. A sign on each beseeches: "Give your bit for gas defense...