Horace W. Peaslee, Air Raid Shelter Requirements ("An address delivered February 23, 1942, at the National Training Conference on Aerial Bombardment Protection".)
Peaslee was Chair of the Committee on Civilian Protection of the American Institute of Architects. 11x8.5, 16pp, offset publication printed on both sides, gathered by a staple at top left. Nice copy. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their surplus/duplicate stamp on the back page. $95
If you think Peaslee's name seems familiar to you, it probably is--he is perhaps best remembered for being the designer of the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial at Arlington showing the raising of the flag at Suribachi.
This is an interesting work, and Peaslee has an unusual, conversational style of writing as he basically thinks out loud about the issue of air raid shelters--and he starts right at the beginning, asking if they should be built in the U.S. at all. And if so, they shouldn't be built small, but very large, to accommodate a lot of people, explaining that individuals building their own private shelters may give rise to panic and then a run on supplies that were otherwise needed for the fighting war effort. So, overall, it is a pretty good piece of thinking, seeing how Peaslee asks and then answers all sorts of questions of himself. This was simply a good piece of thinking.
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