Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sewers for refuge until the city pointed out that a rainstorm would drown them all, suggested three old beer storage caves instead. Boston got RFC backing for its old plan to build a garage beneath the Boston Common, on the grounds that if would be a wonderful air raid shelter too. And New York's Mayor O'Dwyer wanted to spend $450 million for civilian shelters...
...driver threw up his hands to surrender. Both were cut down by a merciless blast from the machine gun. A Red soldier then jumped into the road and drew a bead on Little with his rifle. Luckily, the weapon jammed. Little had time to duck into the shelter of a house by the roadside. Said he, later, 'I could see every inch of rifling down his gun barrel, I was so close...
...case of rain the Alumni Association meeting will move into Memorial Hall, but alumni spreads, will take place as scheduled in the Yard. Tents will provide shelter...
...Dash for Shelter. At 7, Harry Truman was aboard a five-car special train, heading for Columbia and the University of Missouri's commencement exercises. By 9:30, in cap & gown, he was marching in the faculty parade around the University stadium. By 10 he was beginning his 18 minute speech, in which he warned against cutting European aid. He raced through the speech; it began to rain just as he started it, and a cloudburst sent his audience of 17,000 stampeding for shelter just as he finished...
...favelas of Rio de Janeiro are akin to Algiers' notorious Casbah. Teeming shanty towns, about 200 in number, they spot the city's steep hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...