Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's Camp Kilmer, where a few hundred refugees still await help from eager welfare agencies, U.S. Army detachments prepared new shelter and service facilities for the big rush. In the hurly-burly of processing, the bureaucracy managed to remember that Dec. 6 was St. Nicholas Day. In many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves presents in the newly polished shoes of the good children, switches and pieces of coal for the naughty ones. For the 51 children still awaiting settlement at Kilmer, there were toys, dolls and candy. No such observance had been permitted Hungarian children since...
...World War II, during which meteorology suddenly came of age. It was quickly apparent that the war would be fought largely in the air. with weather often the controlling factor. Storms would put whole air forces out of action. For surface forces, clouds and fogs would be all-important shelter...
...which could have broken up the invasion fleet as it had the Spanish Armada, sailing in the opposite direction, 356 years before. As June 1944 approached, the weather over the Channel remained impossibly bad. Each service demanded several different kinds of weather. The airborne infantry wanted cloud-cover to shelter it from enemy fighters; the bombers wanted clear skies. Ground forces wanted cloud-cover and fairly dry soil in Normandy to support their vehicles...
Since Project "East River" and other studies predict that concrete and steel shelters alone will have little value in the event of atomic attack, the FCDA's approach is of dubious survival value. In dense cities such as New York the use of all possible shelter space could not prevent hopeless overcrowding and mass deaths. Evacuation, on the other hand, would be practically impossible, even with an adequate early warning system...
...realistic civil defense policy should emphasize personal survival techniques and seek only limited objectives in shelter and evacuation during attack. It must include plans for post-attack care and dispersal and should prepare the public to face the grim aftermath of nuclear bombing...