Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers had learned a few new tricks during the bumper years: they had planted shelter belts of trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing machines during the war. A reasonable rain or snow would nail down the soil for the year, and save the wheat...
...Food & Shelter. Was Russia playing possum by deliberately stressing Soviet weakness? It was conceivable, but far from likely. The war had cost Russian production a decade of progress. She could not make that up if a Big Three split forced her to continue devoting two thirds of her national effort to armaments. Whatever their long-term aims might be, Soviet leaders wanted peace long enough to put more food in Russian bellies, more clothes on Russian backs...
...haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, another of the Register's missing persons, also received shelter...
...Every major U.S. city was jammed to its last trailer camp. More than a million families were doubling up; thousands of servicemen in search of a home were returning to the U.S. An army of luckless people, most of them with adequate funds, engaged in a desperate competition for shelter. In Atlanta, 2,000 of them answered an ad for a single apartment. In freezing Minneapolis, a man, his wife and baby spent seven nights in their automobile...