Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even with a shelter for spectators, the cost of such an arena is still reasonable. A quonset-type building, accommodating over one thousand spectators, requires about $65,000. This affords ample room for the average hockey crowd, and the Yale game could move into the Boston Garden...
...fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter of a dike, a rifle bullet smashed Bennett's elbow. Nevertheless, he made it to the dike...
...number of reasons the "Inferno" is used to shelter the erotic literature. Preservation is also a paramount consideration here. According to Haynes, studies like Freud's "interpretation of Dreams" and Havelock Ellis' "Psychology of Sex" are kept locked up because "the Library was continualy losing these looks...
...February morning in 1945 a posse of 150 Garibaldis set out before dawn, slogged through snowy upland pastures toward Bella's headquarters. As they approached, they hid their weapons under their overcoats, and told the sleepy guards that they were partisans looking for shelter. Once inside, they shot and killed Bolla and three others. They looted the Osoppo supplies' and later rounded up and killed 16 more Osoppo...
Competition for Quonset. A "revolutionary" steel military shelter was announced by President John J. O'Brien of Gunnison Homes, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. Insulated with Fiberglas, the barracks-type, all-steel units will be demountable, portable and fire-and hurricane-proof. Any part can be lifted by two men, and five men can erect a 20-by-48-ft. basic shelter in one day, using only hammers, pins and wedges. Gunnison says its shelter is better looking than the Quonset huts, has no space-wasting curves, can be painted more easily, gives better protection in combat areas...