Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...crowded underground shelters of London have many drawbacks. One is that they stink. Another is that the air in them is laden with germs. Last week in the Lancet, Scientists Charles Claud Twort and A. H. Baker of the Portslade Laboratories in Sussex came out for an old-fashioned way of doing away with disagreeable smells which is a newfangled way of doing away with germs: burning incense...
Across the Ohio River from Louisville, Charlestown, Ind. (pre-defense pop., 850) was bewildered and irritated last week. Du Pont engineers were building for the U. S. Government a vast, sprawling $50,000,000 smokeless-powder plant of 100 buildings (some reportedly underground for air-raid protection) on 6,000 acres of woodland. At first Charlestowners had been as elated as small boys by this windfall. But by last week their town had grown to 5.000. Where there had been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives...
...lines were down. Western Union lost 800 poles, 2,000 crossarms, had 100,000 wire breaks. In Amarillo 100 telephone poles toppled (throughout the storm area, 2,200). Radio towers went down. When electric power failed, Amarillo's water supply went dry, for 10,000,000 gallons stored underground could not be pumped to the surface. Amarillo's fire department, answering many false alarms, had only enough water for 15 minutes of real fire fighting...
...with glamor-boys and pretty co-eds. This time it is dear old Bailey U. that takes the alma mater honors and the life is quite a revelation. Armed with forged Groton diplomas and a beer-hall background, Maxie and stooge Sid Silvers crash Bailey to run an underground bookie racket and take the students for an expensive ride on the ponies. From there on it is a mad chase from physiology classroom to basketball floor to the girl's dormitory to R.O.T.C. drill field to Junior Prom, with Maxie and Sid double-crossing their chief on a fixed race...
...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...