Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said OCDirector James M. Landis: No plans have been made to equip the whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces...
Benjamin M. Selekman, formerly a lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems, has become, effective July 1, an associate professor of Business Administration...
...Cosgrave used to have her girls chaperoned wherever they went, made them walk in Central Park every morning. They still take part in such urban sports as riding, swimming, tennis, dancing. Finch girls also take turns practicing housekeeping and interior decorating in a model apartment (Mrs. Cosgrave likes to tell about the Southern belle who once rushed excitedly into the dean's office and announced: "I've just cracked an egg"), visit settlement houses to tell children stories. They can take courses in income management, secretarial work, business...
While the speed required now in building army cantonments necessitates a trend toward simplicity, the decentralization of urban centers which has been going on unchecked and unplanned should have an over-all scheme, he asserted...
...television, into which NBC and CBS have sunk millions, began to prove itself useful last week. With the delighted cooperation of the New York City Police Department, to which civilian defense has been one long headache, NBC's television experts took up the task of teaching urban air-raid wardens how to do their...