Building: Shelter Skelter

Flinching at the jangle of his office phone, Ray Toland, president of Los Angeles' Nuclear Survival Corp. last week explained to a visitor his current sales policy. Said Toland: "I have to be blunt and ask, 'Are you serious or just inquiring?' I haven't got time any more to tell people what fallout is." As a result of the Berlin crisis, builders and salesmen of nuclear fallout shelters all across the U.S. last week found themselves with more business than they could handle.

In Boston one builder lost a $780 contract because he couldn't...

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