Word: heiberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...
Some of the neighbors, who did not share Mrs. Heiberg's sense of personal involvement, were inclined to grin, but not the Federal Civil Defense Administration, which also had bomb shelters on its mind. The FCDA, not yet as sure of its plans as Mrs. Heiberg, announced last week that it planned to provide bomb shelters for 50 million people in critical target areas. For that purpose alone, it proposed to spend $2 billion of the $3.1 billion it had requested from Congress. The FCDA said it would foot 54% of the bill for the shelters, hoped the balance...