Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pits. Mayor Miller agreed. He called an emergency meeting of his city council at 8 a.m., launched an Albertynsville relief fund that topped $45,000. From Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist cabinet came an offer of temporary shelter for the homeless in the big, unused army barracks at Lenz, three miles west of Albettynsville. At first, "Chief" Eric Kumalo, 48, the black-bearded Negro racketeer whose goon squads charge Albertynsville's shanty dwellers 5 shillings a month "protection" money, threatened to beat up any Negro family moving to Lenz. But not for long: protected by Mayor Miller...
...most prominent and prosperous farmer in the district, former Mayor Johannes Steenbock occupies one of the handsomest houses in the tiny Schleswig-Holstein village of Bark. Its tall, sloping roof covers two attic floors and provides frequent shelter for refugee farmworkers streaming into Germany from the Russian-held East. The refugees, like Farmer Steenbock's large family, find plenty of room on the lower floor and seldom, if ever, visit the attics...
Meteors & Rays. There are other, outside hazards as a space ship soars out of the shelter of earth's atmosphere. From the sun comes a blast of fierce ultraviolet rays which turn glass black. Ordinary light and heat from the sun are also terrors of space. Most surfaces, especially metals, exposed to the sun above the atmosphere get too hot for comfort. Laboratory calculations show that sunlit aluminum will reach 802° F., well above its softening point...
Disguising himself, he crossed the frontier and moved westward, begging food and shelter on the way: "When I saw a cross on the wall, I knocked on the door. Where there was a cross in the house, there was also a bite of bread for the refugee and a spot to sleep . . . God blessed me, and here I am in the free world...
...exploring priest is sure now that Mt. Castillo is one of the places where human society was born. While the glaciers crunched over northern Europe, men sought shelter in caves, and the connected caves of Mt. Castillo offered room for many of them. Somehow they learned to behave less like animals, more like humans...