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...million Londoners are homeless, hundreds of thousands are living in "acute discomfort." Lack of labor, materials, time have made it impossible to rebuild wrecked houses. This winter at least 10,000 Nissen-type Army huts will dot the London landscape as emergency shelters. But they will shelter only a fraction of the homeless...
Gandhi had also offered to meet India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell. If Lord Wavell would promise India independence at once, Gandhi would throw the power of the All-India National Congress behind the Allied war effort. Said the Viceroy, who knows that the Congress speaks for only a fraction of India's 390,000,000 people: there was no point in a meeting now, but the Government would gladly consider "any definite and constructive proposal...
...reporter spelled out the launchings in heartfelt detail: "An NCO presses a black button. The earth trembles. A hellish sound. . . In a fraction of a second the gigantic explosive missile shoots off and glides as quick as lightning over the launching track . . . with a gruesome roaring and thundering...
...brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than $72 and the average auto is slightly above $330. Dobbin still has the advantage of numbers however, as there are four horses to every automobile...
...Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...