Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
...airports they said: ''Even the birds are walking." Here & there planes, unable to come down at their scheduled stops, carried their passengers to out-of-the-way fields-at South Bend, Ind., in a few hours, 15 huge planes landed, like great ungainly birds seeking shelter...
...display in Los Angeles last week was one of a half dozen air-raid shelters built by a Glendale contractor named Victor J. Nelson. The Nelson shelter was an above-ground type, attracted gapers, no buyers. But Nelson has plans for underground shelters, too, which the Defense Council has tentatively approved. Meanwhile in Hollywood Cinemactress Deanna Durbin is already building a house with a bombproof shelter. Miss Durbin said she didn't order it; the architect just put it in of his own accord...
Meeting in an Adams House darkroom last night, a hastily-organized group of worried Sophomore Gold Coasters known as the K.M.H.C. (Keep the Mole in the Hole Committee) discussed plans for a new "Mole Raid Shelter" to be built in the bowels of Westmorely...
After four years of unceasing war, Japan prepared anew for war. Floodlights cut white arcs through Tokyo's dark as work on inadequate air-raid shelters went on around the clock. Men were at work in one corner of the Palace grounds. No one could see what they were doing, but a good guess was that they were building an air-raid shelter for the Emperor. Laborers studded Japan's other big cities with antiaircraft guns...