Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Further expenses in the University project include 24-hour attendance and shelter and heat for the guard. "We also feel it would be necessary to fence the area," Reynolds told Lally...
...deep in the heart of the U.S., Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick feels a little unsafe. Last week the Trib reported to its readers that when the first atomic bomb falls on Chicago, 3,000 Tribune Tower employees will have a bombproof hole to scamper into. For his atomic shelter, the Colonel set aside the second basement of the Tower, "a room massively walled and ceiled with heavy concrete and steel beams...
Family Beds. In Hamburg that night, others were also finding it hard to get along without much money. Near the station some Germans, just arrived by the last train, were shambling along between the rubble piles searching for a sheltered place to sleep a few hours. There was only a bunker-a concrete-walled, prisonlike municipal air-raid shelter. The bedraggled transients dug out their identity cards, were suspiciously eyed by a policeman at the door, then were led to their cells...
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Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...