Word: overcrowdedness
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Sinking Island. For a while, if the flood of escapees continued, it almost seemed as if overcrowded Hong Kong would burst and sink. The West sensed a powerful duty to relieve Hong Kong and help shelter these patient, dogged refugees from Red misery-and yet there was little enough the...
high and 20 ft. wide. But unlike Walter Ulbricht's hated Berlin Wall, the new barrier was not built by the Communists; it was erected by the British last week to keep hungry refugees from the Red Chinese mainland out of the dangerously overcrowded Crown colony of Hong Kong...
Slightly Bemused. Innkeeper Stewart's anger was a backhanded compliment to the power of a woman who. in an overcrowded journalistic specialty, has managed to find a place and a style her own. Quite by coincidence, Inez herself produced another reminder of her style last week with publication of...
Great Obstacles. City officials believe that the answer to much of the rising crime rate lies in better education for the city's less fortunate citizens, but the sickness of the slums has spread to the schools in some big cities. Many parents of moderate income refuse to send...
Born in Denver and raised in Little Rock, McDonnell learned physics at Princeton and aeronautics at M.I.T. (M.S., '25). After college, he barnstormed the country in flying flivvers of his own design, then settled down to become chief project engineer for the Martin Co. In 1939, ignoring scoffers who...