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...crump of bombs and report of Flak roared above ground in the R. A. F.'s longest attack of the war, two little future soldiers were brought squalling into the world. Next morning Adolf Hitler tenderly blessed the infants, and declared that for every baby born in his underground hospital during a raid he would be godfather...
...second place, the building will extend down three stories below the surface of the Yard, and will be capable of "indefinite expansion through underground additions." This will make it easily convertible into a bomb proof shelter, and it might even be used as a special subway station for Harvard men only...
...newspapers loudly called for adequate shelters. What if the whole winter had to be spent underground? There simply were not enough good shelters. One of the only really safe ones, aside from the Underground, was the vaults of the Bank of England. Its Board of Directors declared a 6% dividend there last week, but the populace of London could not be kept in the Bank of England's vaults...
Another day, in the Buckingham Palace underground shelter, he decorated widows and parents of 13 Navy, Army and Air Force officers who had died in action. While the afternoon sirens moaned he visited the Air Ministry in the uniform of Marshal of the R. A. F., watched the activities during the "alert," then visited Sir John Anderson at the Home Security Ministry...
...Most news offices had air-raid shelters underground, fitted up as newsrooms, with telephones and typewriters. Associated Press, United Press each kept a steel-helmeted reporter on its rooftop to watch raiders and telephone descriptions to the newsrooms down below. When the lookout announced that bombers were overhead, half the staff ducked into shelters; the rest stayed at their desks upstairs...