Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediate all-out war, wrote Messe in the magazine Oggi, the Russians would have 45 divisions available for use against Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia. To counter them, there are 30 Yugoslav and eight Italian divisions. But, asked the marshal, "What if our neighbor [Yugoslavia] should look for shelter under the protecting wing of 'Great Mother Russia'? ... It is evident that in our sector security can be obtained from ourselves alone." Soldier Messe recommended two immediate steps: build up the police and security forces to protect Italy's interior from Communist infiltration; strengthen Italy's air transport...
...grip of an industrial revival, soil conservation is breaking out all over, the cattle trade is expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...
Extra Service. In Bethpage, L.I., a drive-in movie theater, unhappy about being on the same island with an Air Force base, two aircraft factories and an atomic plant, announced that it would soon construct a reinforced concrete shelter "to provide its patrons with protection from an H-bomb...
...encouraging to see people preparing sensibly for the Great Struggle. Lowell House has a right to be proud of the new air raid shelter being constructed in the main quadrangle. We can't begin getting ready for the Russians too soon...
...Soon the shelter will be finished and they will lay back the sod, as if nothing had ever happened. But members of the House strolling through the main quadrangle may walk confident and erect, for they know that if war comes, Lowell House will be ready...