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...streets funnel out into only a few exits; the houses are wood; the congestion is terrible; fire in the Tondo district of tenements and shops, brothels and huts would turn it into Hell on a Holiday...
Said Mayor Kelly: "Some of the things I learned in there amazed me and opened my eyes, to say the least. If some of the things I heard are verified I am sure that Commissioner of Police Allman will see that someone gets hell in the Police Department." James P. Allman ordered his captains called in on the carpet...
...advocated a negotiated peace, on the grounds that there was little to choose between capitalist Britain and totalitarian Germany. Recently, when told that he would have to do a turn of fire-watching on the House of Commons roof, Jock McGovern replied that he would "see the Government in hell...
...well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...
...Government has been reamed of several million dollars ... a project gone to hell." So moaned fox-faced Senator Harry Truman last week after hearing witnesses describe construction of the Army's Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant and Milan Ordnance Depot being built 100 miles from Memphis in the Tennessee hills. The Truman Committee, tirelessly investigating defense expenditures, had heard similar charges before in connection with other Army construction projects (TIME, Sept. 15). But the Memphis testimony reached a few new highs. Some of the accusations made...