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...long western coastline has hundreds of sheltered bays and inlets, in many places could offer no more formidable resistance than a few bewildered fishermen. From beachheads along the coast, an invader could move north into the mountains of California, could establish a submarine base to attack U.S. shipping, could bomb most of the U.S. Southwest...
...Class A building has adequate ventilation and toilet facilities for the number of people specified, has strong enough over-head construction to carry any debris from collapsed walls or roof, except in the case of a direct hit with a large bomb. Most of the buildings thus classified are of fireproof construction, and afford safety from splintering glass and fragmentation of the bomb...
...armed forces. We must not only hate the little yellow warrior; not only despise the war party that has created them; but we must learn to loathe every Japanese boy and girl who gather rice in the fields, or go without food so that the yellow army can bomb our shores. It is the people, the customs, the culture,--every least part of the Japanese civilization that is symbolized by a spider or an octopus in the cartoons which decorate the editorial pages of our city newspapers...
...find an unexploded bomb, always pick it up and shake like hell (maybe the firing pin is stuck). If that doesn't work, heave it in the furnace. (The Fire Department will come and take care of things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a building, throw gasoline on it. (You can't put it out anyway, so you might just as well have a little fun.) . . . Always get excited and holler bloody murder. (It will add to the fun and confusion and scare hell out of the kids.) . . . If you should be the "victim...
...Museum, yesterday stated that the famous glass flowers collection will not be removed from its present place. "This unique collection is of a most extremely fragile nature, to move it would be little less destructive than anything which could happen to it, except perhaps a direct hit by a bomb" Dr. Barbour explained...