Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Elliott has been serving for several years in Washington with the WPB as vice-chairman in charge of civilian requirements until his appointment Saturday to the commission. His duties have included mainly the investigation of civilian food, travel, and shelter requirements...
...between them. . . . Inside it is hot-fire is spreading nearer, floors are glowing with heat and about to collapse. . . . Across the street is the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Goring, protected by a thick stone wall. . . . The building is burning and we cannot enter it. The gigantic air-raid shelter is untouched...
...soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners all over Europe and to plan more Utopias...
Britain's delegation included two women M.P.s: former League Delegate Florence Horsbrugh ("I'm one of those people who think men and women must work together") and tiny Ellen Wilkinson, called the "shelter Queen" because of her labors in behalf of bombed-out Londoners. China also sent a woman: Dr. Wu Yi-fang, President of Ginling College...
...Clamp. The millions of Berliners who could not fight, those who did not want to fight now that doom was on the doorstep, milled in panic. They surged to the Ringbahn, fought each other to get on the last trains to anywhere. They massed in the air-raid shelters, choked the Unter-grundbahn platforms and tracks. Stunned, they huddled wherever they could find shelter and waited...