Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damage had been done. The British would not admit it, but there were probably serious hitches in armament production. One aircraft factory was hit badly enough to lose perhaps a sixth of its production. This week Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook warned workers that they must not seek shelter during raids until danger is imminent...
Into the Earth. But the biggest problem of the week was that of shelter. In the first months of the war the Government distributed Anderson shelters (named for Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson), light steel affairs for back yards. They were designed to 'stop splinters, not bombs, and have proved ad mirable for that limited purpose. Their great fault was that they were not big enough to sleep...
Answers. All this pressed hard against the heart of Winston Churchill. Both from the military and the humane point of view, the shelter problem was of first importance. By his own choice the Prime Minister was grossly overworked. Besides daily War Cabinet meetings, raid or no raid, besides reading and editing some 100 State papers, he took all the civilian grievances on his own hunched shoulders. He knew how dangerous they were. He knew that excessive preoccupation with them was just the precondition for invasion which Adolf Hitler wanted...
...many volunteer organizations and nobody starved. The power plant of an East End meatpacking factory was bombed. Instead of letting five tons of meat spoil, the manager dumped it in a caldron, added vegetables, served stew to bombees. But an increasing number of London's poor had no shelter but bomb shelters...
...commonplace last week for London fire fighters to go right on with their work in burning buildings while the next Nazi load of incendiary bombs was being brought up at full throttle. Only when these actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...