Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth man likes it cold and he almost got more than he bargained for at last weekend's 41st annual Winter Carnival. When the temperature skidded to a chilly 25-below on Friday night, even the rabid outdoorsmen (and women) in the huge crowd willingly ducked for shelter. Indeed, indoor sports are supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope...
...gift-laden advertisers and proud neighbors, and out into the bright glare of television lamps and popping flashbulbs. There she smiled winningly at the camera and scooped up a shovelful of light, sandy earth. The occasion: the groundbreaking, Hollywood-style, for Mrs. Ruth Colhoun's private A-bomb shelter...
...many others on the West Coast, that an A-bomb attack would catch her napping. In hundreds of California backyards, sweating husbands and excited children were blistering their hands and straining their backs burrowing into the ground. Overnight, dozens of new construction firms appeared, offering everything from $13.50 foxhole shelters to luxurious $5,500 suites equipped with telephone, escape hatches, bunks, toilets and a Geiger counter. City switchboards were flooded with calls asking for shelter specifications. Newspaper ads exhorted home owners to buy "Life Safes . . . protection for you and your family against aerial attack...
Even city officials were thinking about going underground. Los Angeles city planners were looking into the possibility of making three proposed underground garages bombproof enough to shelter 90,000 people in an attack. The county board of supervisors ordered immediate construction of an $80,000 storage room for microfilm records, and tax assessors worked out new rates for dugout-equipped homes...
...hydrogen bomb (with which the desolate males of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. quickly and furiously make havoc of one another's loveless cities). But for the first time, even the most intelligent women wake up to the extent of their dependence on men, not only for food, shelter and euphoria, but also for self-confidence and the ability...