Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even in London, which last week received its worst raid in six months, the primary target was the docks. In each port the Germans did not mind if there was tremendous ancillary damage to houses, lives, communications and morale. (In the second night's raid on Plymouth, a shelter was hit with 250 people in it; most were casualties.) Apparently Adolf Hitler had given over the battle of production, now that the Lend-Lease Bill was passed, in favor of the battle of transportation...
...democracies has been the conservatism of State Department ideologues like its International Economic Adviser, backward-leaning Herbert Feis, who disapproves of seizure (as unneutral). Last week it looked as if the Department's die-hard holdouts could not succeed much longer. South American countries, whose ports shelter 90 other ships belonging to the Axis and its vassals, are also considering confiscation, would be spurred by a U. S. precedent...
...apprehensive men-from-the-street, seeking shelter from last week's blizzard, these abstractions looked like good clean lunatic fun. But the people who went there on purpose could point out that the simplified cubes and planes of this unrealistic art have influenced nearly every type of modern decoration, from typography, magazine layout, window display and fashion design to streamlining and modern architecture...
...King of Egypt is young, flabby, willful. At night, when he cannot sleep, he loves to set off the air-raid alarm, watch his courtiers scurry to the shelter in their night clothes. He eats pounds of chocolates daily. He drives big, sleek, red and green cars-15 Packards and ten Rolls-Royces-and steers them, according to his chauffeurs, better than anybody in Egypt. He is even surer of himself when running his country's affairs...
...Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...