Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still had to laugh when he came scuttling into an air-raid shelter on the eve of Germany's surrender, barking gaily: "May I introduce myself? My name is Meier...
Vera's Bubble. The trouble with Vera is that she doesn't really like herself, but rather than admit it, she has blown a big, pleasant bubble of egotism about herself. The least touch of reality, as Vera well knows, will collapse her flimsy shelter; so she lives in dread and hatred that slowly encompass almost everybody and everything on the island...
...work. Theoretically, the whole U.S. labor force of 62 million will have to work for 17 weeks to pay the $74 billion tax bill. The $74 billion tax bill is 3½ times what the U.S. spends for shoes and clothing, almost four times what it spends for shelter, almost 14 times what it spends for transportation. It would buy enough four-door Chevrolet sedans to stretch bumper to bumper four times around the world. It would provide for all U.S. medical care for eight years, or all U.S. education for a decade. It would build 200 Panama Canals...
...good order, leaving smoldering ruins and 24 bodies. The surviving people of San Pedro stayed long enough to bury their own dead, to disinter the bandit's body and throw it to the buzzards. Then, the civil war's newest refugees,they straggled westward to seek shelter in neighboring towns...
Outside the country, a Hungarian church in exile is growing swiftly. Its communicants: 200,000 refugees who have fled since 1945. Its frontier outposts: a dozen relief stations in Western Europe (mainly Austria), where the Hungarian Caritas (Catholic welfare organization), financed by U.S. Catholics, gives shelter to Hungarians of all sects who manage to slip across the border. The Vatican's man in charge: Monsignor Josef Zagon, 42, onetime chancellor of the diocese of Györ and follower of Cardinal Mindszenty, who escaped from Hungary just before the cardinal's arrest...