Word: shelterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bivouac. At dusk the columns draw close to the shelter of a mountainside and scraggly clumps of paloverde and green-silver, dusty-needled tamarisk trees. Every vehicle halts a good distance from every other: there are no clusters of machines to make targets for surprise air attacks...
...assistants wish they could accept all the bids they get to spend vacations with club officers everywhere from Maine to Southern California-and just after Pearl Harbor a chairman of the Missouri Women's Clubs jokingly invited the Club Bureau's entire staff to share their bomb shelter in Marvel Cave. In fact, the national offices of most of the women's clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking or the clubs' suggesting...
...Some girls flirt at work. Douglas Aircraft (about 25% of whose employes are now women) had to close its Santa Monica plant's bomb shelter with heavy tar paper (to be broken in case of a real air raid) because swing-shift couples found it too handy for lovemaking during lunch...
...seven months the people lived in the woods. They ate berries and huddled against the trees for shelter. Hundreds died of starvation. Thousands of others lived, bags of skin and bones and anger...
...courtroom a civilian witness testified he had heard no screams from the shelter. The court pronounced: "Not Guilty...