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...letter to the editor of the Lancet last fortnight, a Glasgow doctor named Stanley Alstead offered an ingenious suggestion for deodorizing underground raid shelters. "I understand," wrote he, "that the stench in a London tube after it has been used for a night is beyond belief. . . . Old-fashioned charcoal [ might ] help in this connexion. Its power in abolishing smells is very considerable and has largely been lost sight of. . . . [ I heard of ]; a pharmacologist who actually put a dead cat into a charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests...
Praising the morale and spirit of the Spanish people, Negrin declared that the liberal movement in Spain is not dead, but that it now constitutes a powerful underground force which requires constant Government attention and watchfulness...
...civilization," Broadacres is Wright's answer to the problem of the crowded machine-age city. In Broadacres, homes, factories, office and municipal buildings are separated by wide park spaces planted with lawns and trees. Its farms rub elbows with its town hall. Its warehouses are part of its underground railway system...
...their hazardous day's work one morning last week. They were making sensitive detonators for blasting, TNT for the Navy, smokeless powder for the Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles that had been two men, six women...
...school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground Japanese schools...