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From Mukden's railway station many trains chugged northward last week. Their cars were jammed with trucks, bicycles, ammunition-and Russians. The Soviet Army was evacuating Manchuria's largest metropolis, leaving the stunned, hungry, overcrowded city to the Chinese.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wounds | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Jones Street was in need of uplift. It was one of Manhattan's most densely populated blocks, with an infant death rate of 125 to the thousand (compared with a New York City average of 58.7), and it was at the mercy of two notorious adolescent gangs known as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mrs. Sim & the Neighbors | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Overcrowded College Inevitable

Author: By Robert S. Sturgle, | Title: 2600 Registration Now Predicted | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Even up to the last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3000 MEN TO CROWD COLLEGE | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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