Crossword-Solution: QUONSET 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Along with a dozen assorted government officials, Army officers, and scientists, he was quartered in a quonset hut in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

And beyond, through a dusty oval glass window, Ruth could see a reddish brown wasteland, where dust clouds spun and shifted slowly, and a dusty huddle of what looked like quonset huts or storage sheds of metal.

Another half-hour taxi ride over dusty desert roads would bring him to the glorified quonset hut his brother called home.

The area had been bulldozed flat in most places, and Quonset-type warehouses, called _bodegas_, had replaced the ruined Spanish buildings.

For the most part, they were housed in quonset-type structures, but some old pillboxes constructed during the war still dotted the island and could be used for refuge from typhoons if the wind-driven seas did not rise high enough to flood them.