Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sponsored by Council-man A1 Vellucci, requests that the Cambridge City Manager confer with local, state, and University officials on the feasibility of the resolution. Vellucci hoped that even federal funds might be available for the project, since the under ground garage could also serve as an air raid shelter...
...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...
...government tried desperate countermeasures. It set up 15 centers to produce rabies vaccine, but immunity given by it wore off in a few months. Specially trained bat-killers attacked the bats' home caves with flamethrowers, dynamite and poison gas. They chopped down hollow trees where the bats shelter, but still bat rabies spread...
...Victims of radiation exposure should walk to the nearest shelter-never run -says Biologist Thomas J. Haley of the University of California. He exposed rats to an eventually fatal dose of radiation, found that one group, with light exercise, tired and died rapidly, while another group that stayed quiet took far longer to perish. If humans find themselves under some cover during an atomic blast, he feels that they should stay put. "You may experience radiation sickness, but you may at least live to recover...
...Europe. Few of Roma's waiters, stewards, cooks and deckhands got more than four hours' sleep in the three days they cared for the survivors before putting them ashore at Aden, where volunteer relief committees had prepared a newly finished hospital and a girls' school to shelter them...