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The family fallout shelter

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Description: "In an atomic war, blast, heat, and initial radiation could kill millions close to ground zero of nuclear bursts. Many more millions-everybody else-could be threatened by radioactive fallout. But most of these could be saved. The purpose of this booklet is to show how to escape death from fallout. Everyone, even those far from a likely target, would need shelter from fallout. Your Federal Government has a shelter policy based on the knowledge that most of those beyond the range of blast and heat will survive if they have adequate protection from fallout"--Introduction, page 2.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1959]
Call number: 714372
Dimensions: 27 cm
Associated organizations: United States.

Office of Civil Defense booklets

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Three booklets produced for the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense: "School boards plan for civil defense" (August 1965); "Designing shelter in new buildings: a manual for architects on the preliminary designing of shielding from fallout gamma radiation..." (March 1967); "National Fallout Shelter Design Competition, community center, awards, conducted by the American Institute of Architects" (July 1967).

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Shelter Cove Harbor, Mendocino County

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Shelter Cove is in Humboldt County, rather than Mendocino. One of a series of 35 charts of small California harbors. The maps are hand tinted and include notes on the harbor conditions for ships. From the library of John Haskell Kemble. "Presented to U. S. Coast Survey with compliments of New Zealand Insurance Company ... San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1886." "E. A. Dakin, Electric Pen Printer, 320 Sansome St." Previously identified as 479297f. Coordinates based on the location of Shelter Cove (USGS ID 232947).

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Two men in Kaiser Meadow shelter cabin used during snow surveys

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Two men in Kaiser Meadow shelter cabin used during snow surveys. One is pouring a cup of coffee from the wood-burning stove, while the other is checking out the canned food supplies in a large pantry.

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Manuel H. Rodriguez family papers

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The core of the Manuel H. Rodriguez papers are his thoughtful and informative reminiscences. There are over 20 narrations of his past experiences. They cover his service in the United States Army to his years as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote about the economic effects of the Great Depression in Los Angeles, where an overwhelming amount of men worked as an itinerant salesman to ordinary activities such as playing marbles. Rodriguez wrote, "I have enjoyed reminiscing about those years and the exercise of my memory has had therapeutic effects," Box 9 (16). Many of Rodriguez's reminiscences could be accessed on his son's website: Zòcalo.

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Hot iron

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"Colonel Judkins had handed Espy a tough assignment - straightening out a Texas ranch where trouble could unexpectedly shoot out from behind the nearest rock or tree. But this was Espy's chance to make good. He could forget all those years of hard drinking after his wife's death and try to regain his little boy's love and respect. Espy was tough, but vicious cow thieves and dishonest ranch hands might be even tougher"--Back cover.

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The Precursors of essential hypertension and coronary artery disease : characteristics of the Johns Hopkins medical students : collected papers

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Hypertension and coronary artery disease are chief causes of disability and death of men and women in active middle life. A new approach was needed to identify potential victims for prediction and prevention measures. In May 1946, a long-term controlled study was designed using Johns Hopkins medical students as subjects since they could be observed during their four years in medical school and could be relied upon to cooperate with the follow-up studies throughout their lives. Data was collected from fifteen classes, and twenty six reports have been published on various aspects of the study. These volumes are reprints of those reports.

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