Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Justice Orgaz and most of the other judges resumed their posts. Afraid of pushing the military too far, the Peronistas stopped talking tough. Underground Leader Guillermo Kelly called newsmen to a secret rendezvous and said he would go along with Frondizi's program "for the good of democracy." For a while at least, Frondizi might be able to concentrate on the grievous economic problems of his fertile but bankrupt country...
Hoffa's fisty proposal: a conference, to be held next month, of leaders of some 50 transportation unions, whose membership runs to 3.5 million. His aim: confederation of transport workers who cover not only trucking, but also the waterfront, the air, the railroads and even the underground. Such a powerhouse group, if organized in the Hoffa manner, would be a serious threat to George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O., and would create a union monopoly that could conceivably pull the switch on the U.S. economy at the whim of James Riddle Hoffa...
...city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
...over Sweden factories are going underground. The firm of Bolinder-Munktell, manufacturers of engines, housed itself in a cave shelter shortly after World War II. More important, the Swedes discovered that building underground-in terms of construction and maintenance-often costs less. Airplanes, precision instruments, munitions, radios are also made in below-ground factories; hydroelectric power is generated in stations tucked inside mountains; cavernous hospitals are complete with X-ray rooms, operating theaters, fully equipped wards...
Sweden's armed forces will go to earth with its citizens. There are underground hangars for jet planes, subterranean sea pens dug out of the sides of rock-walled fjords for destroyers and submarines; barracks, repair shops, fuel dumps and munitions depots all have granite shields...