Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raid drill brought apparatus ranging from a hook and ladder and eight ambulances to four garbage trucks, two snowplows, and a paddy wagon to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon...
...Outside the window they could see a shiny brass whistle, four feet high, ten inches in diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...
...took Matsui and his surviving workers two months to clear away the debris. When the job was done, all that was left was a single air-raid shelter. Matsui ordered a sign reading "Capital" fixed to the shelter. "This," he boomed to his workers, "is the capital from which we will rebuild...