Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irrigation experiments on the bone-dry soil paid off so well that Pecos became a thriving cotton center (pop. 12,450). To pick the crop each year, Pecos depends mainly on the braceros-legally imported Mexican laborers who come north to work the season for free transportation, shelter and an average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team of 13 Latin American Baptists, marimba-playing Preacher Hernandez checked into Pecos' Lone Star Motel for a week-long Cottonpatch Crusade...
Against the all-too-real chance of revolution, Perón also had a bomb shelter and Hitler-style funk hole. Through a secret panel in the ground-floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...
Council candidates and Cambridge editor of the Boston Record American Edward M. Martin wants to build a combination bomb shelter-parking garage under Cambridge Common...
Funds are sparse at City Hall for construction of any parking facilities around the Square, and no one there is looking very hard to find any. Martin, in his campaign platform, advocates seeking federal funds to build a bomb shelter under the Cambridge Common. Once safely nestled near the bowels of Radcliffe's downtown campus, Martin would then slyly convert the shelter into a parking garage...
...Henry Johnson, director of Sports Information, said last night that he had once again turned down WHRB's request to use the broadcasting booth. It must be kept free so that television cameramen can take shelter there in case of rain, he explained...