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...rockets "similar to those used by Major Y. A. Gagarin and Major G. S. Titov for their unrivaled cosmic flights." In case somebody missed the point, Russia's army newspaper Red Star explained that nuclear weapons of such power could wipe out anyone anywhere: "No super-deep shelter can save them from an all-shattering blow from this weapon...
...Boston one builder lost a $780 contract because he couldn't start digging a small shelter for a panicky citizen the very next day. In Dallas, the Acme Bomb & Fallout Shelters Co. anticipated $100,000 worth of orders in its first month of operation. In Orlando, Fla., Shelter Builder Douglas Bartholow observed: "For two years I've starved in this business. But since Kennedy's defense talk, I've averaged two sales a day at $2,195 each...
Biggest activity in the shelter business" has been in California-a phenomenon apparently due in equal measure to the state's unusual concentration of bomb-conscious scientists and to its even greater concentration of those who, whatever is being done, want to be the first to do it. Fox Hole Shelter, Inc., offshoot of a swimming-pool firm that got into shelters two years ago by turning its original product upside down, has already sold 236 Fox Holes from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Sacramento's Atlas Bomb Shelter is starting to merchandise a 35-ton prefab...
...Suede-Shoe Problem. Many of the shelter sales are going to solidly established concerns such as Chicago's Wonder Building Corp., whose shelter division is headed by former U.S. Civil Defense Chief Leo A. Hoegh. Says Hoegh: "We, have already sold 5,000 shelters this year, and our volume must now be ten-to fifteenfold over a year ago." Wonder Building offers four all-steel models ranging from $395 to $995. With one plant already working around the clock, Wonder will open a second Chicago factory this week, is laying plans for others in Ontario and on the West...
More Than a Hole. The U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization has set forth clear specifications on what is-and what is not-a proper fallout shelter...