Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Work. In San Diego, George A. Scott stopped to peer into an air-raid shelter on his way home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison...
...chapel. Often he goes to the factory canteen, holds a brief service (hymns, prayers, address, question-&-answer period) after meals. He sometimes holds services in the shadow of a ship's hull, perhaps during the night leads a few hymns and some prayers in the factory air-raid shelter...
...overnight. It is now going on, and the invasion of Europe will accelerate it. To support invading armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production for the U.S. civilian will benefit little at first...
White is only 28 years old but he is the dean of Chungking correspondents-in fact, he has been there almost as long as General Chiang Kaishek. He was there all through the worst of the Jap air raids-was bombed from house to house and from shelter to shelter (during one horrible air raid the mangled body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). But White's news-hunting has also carried him over much of the Far East...
Torrents of Fire. "The alarm was sounded every night, and every night we gathered in the best shelter we could find. But May 26, when the alarm sounded, I was so tired I went down into the shelter in the house, thinking it was a false alarm. It wasn...