Word: shelterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library which in now being constructed between Widener and the Union will shelter the University's "most irreplaceable and valuable manuscripts and printed books," according to William A. Jackson, assistant librarian in charge of the Treasure Room in Widener...
...second place, the building will extend down three stories below the surface of the Yard, and will be capable of "indefinite expansion through underground additions." This will make it easily convertible into a bomb proof shelter, and it might even be used as a special subway station for Harvard men only...
...Prime Minister set the Ministry for Home Security to work. Vaguely Sir John Anderson promised ventilation, light, warmth. Department stores opened their basements, and when the big John Lewis & Co. building was hit, 700 trooped safely out to another shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
Another day, in the Buckingham Palace underground shelter, he decorated widows and parents of 13 Navy, Army and Air Force officers who had died in action. While the afternoon sirens moaned he visited the Air Ministry in the uniform of Marshal of the R. A. F., watched the activities during the "alert," then visited Sir John Anderson at the Home Security Ministry...
Shouted one East End woman to the Queen: "God help the Nazis if they do anything to you and the King." Nowadays Their Majesties sleep and work deep down under Buckingham Palace in a shelter improvised out of what was once the sitting room of the royal housemaids (see cut, p. 31). From the Palace George VI broadcast this week on a globe-girdling hookup, announced that to reward "worthily and promptly the many and glorious . . . deeds of gallantry" now being done by British civilians amid the havoc of bomb raids His Majesty has created the "George Cross...