Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berliners learned from sleeplessness and air-raid-shelter misery that two can play a cruel game, the world pricked up its ears, wondered: the Nazis can give it; but can they take...
...Business as usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
Glass-jawed Phil Scott, onetime British heavyweight champion, was discovered deep in London rubble, heading a squad of wardens digging out a bombed air-raid shelter. Puffed Fainting Phil as he leaned for a moment on his shovel: "And I used to think boxing was hard work...
...once great Ramsay MacDonald's diligent but dull son Malcolm, now Health Minister, last week reported to the House of Commons the Government's plans. He noted that 489,000 (56%) of London's children had been sent away; that crowding in big shelters, such as the subway stations, was being diminished; bunks were being installed, sanitation improved, inspections made, first aid provided. But his report did not go un-heckled. A Laborite doctor cried: "If he [Health Minister MacDonald] can remain for ten minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more...
Among others trying to solve London's dormitory-shelter problem was Admiral Sir Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. And significant of the increasing seriousness of the morale problem was a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth last week to some of Sir Edward's choicest bombed areas, new and old. As common sufferers whose home (Buckingham Palace) had received a share of bombs, Their Majesties picked their way through debris, watched wrecking crews work, talked with A. R. P. wardens...