Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the first 60,000 National Guardsmen reported for duty, before workmen had finished knocking together wood-&-canvas shelters. Many were put up temporarily in their local armories. The Army last week planned to call up its first 75,000 conscripts November 15, to have "adequate" housing for them by then, shelter for the rest by year's end. President Roosevelt asked Congress for $1,600,000,000 for pay, tents, barracks, mobilization expenses. War Department officers uneasily declared that no Guardsmen, no draftees would be wet or cold this winter, frantically pressed ahead with temporary housing projects...
They burrowed underground like gophers, into damp shelters and subways where they slept on hard benches, on concrete floors or sitting upright like yogis. Those who had worked hard all day slept most easily. Chief bores were oldsters, who kept others awake chattering about the raids, and all those, young & old, who snored. Official "shelter shakers" moved about waking the snorers; and apartment-house porters became self-appointed Admirable Crichtons, supervising sleeping arrangements, moving furniture, brewing...
...Into the shelters crowded Jews, Gentiles, pickpockets, lovers. Crime was non-existent in London last week, the lawless taking shelter with their victims. Burglar alarms, set off by concussion, rang aimlessly for hours. Love was almost as difficult, since there was no privacy in shelters and little time during the day. Snobbery survived. Better-dressed people in some apartment houses refused to enter shelters with the proletariat, insisted on sitting on back stairways...
Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...
...lease and cultivate their own beds. Stronghold of the freebaiters is the Chesapeake-Delaware Bay area, 'which produces 60% of U. S. oysters. Stronghold of the private company is Long Island, which produces 25%. Cultivated oysters bring the higher prices. The inlets of Long Island shelter them from the high wind and rough weather which often smother them with sand, feed them enough fresh water to supply the copper and other minerals that tasty oysters need...