Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remote from both eastern and western U.S. seacoasts, sheltered by the loftiest of U.S. mountain ranges, Colorado Springs is one of the least bombable of U.S. cities. Its Fine Art Center, providently built six years ago with lavish backing by Art Patroness Alice Bemis Taylor, contains ample storage space for 2,000 paintings, is honeycombed with strong-walled concrete galleries, corridors and sub-basements. Last week, masterpieces from San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. were making for that bombproof shelter at the rate...
...raid shelter somewhere in the Philippines, behind Douglas MacArthur's embattled lines, mercurial little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was sworn in for his second term as President of the Philippine Commonwealth. From his underground refuge he could hear the muffled slam of big guns, the faint tattoo of antiaircraft fire, the soft thud of Japanese bombs falling on his land, his people...
...groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half years of war: swift deployment, individual initiative, shelter-and-assault. But only at Changsha were the Japanese faced with soldiers who had experience against the Japanese and who know how to apply the countertactics of dispersion, road destruction and depth-defense...
...Standard course Tues. & Thurs. 7:30-9:30 5, Tuesday, Jan. 6 Lesley School, Ererett Street Cambridge Red Cross, 18 Brattle Street, Ellot 7800 Instructors' Course Enrollment limited Tues., & Wed., Thurs., & Fri., 1-5 2, Tuesday, Jan. 18 Cambridge Electric Light Company Cambridge Red Cross Motor Transports (Motor mechanics, shelter drill, convoy driving) Anyone for both regular and emergency driving--advanced registration necessary. Mon. & Wed., 7:30-9:30 (Another course will begin as soon as there is sufficient demand.) 3, Monday, Jan. 5 53, Church Street Cambridge Red Cross Water Safety (Life saving) Anyone For men: Tuesday...
Ernie's life history would read like a fairy tale. When two years old, he lost both his father and mother, and, along with six brothers and sisters, was forced to seek shelter with foster parents. It is only recently that Ernie has succeeded in locating and renewing acquaintances with his scattered...