Word: overcrowdedness
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Through the smoke of fires set by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers, overcrowded Berlin could see the lightning and hear the thunder of Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army guns. They were trained, as Berlin knew, on the ancient fortress of Küstrin and five-times...
The Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel warned that the GI Bill might prove "extraordinarily costly--both in human and financial terms" if veterans were allowed to prepare for unsuitable or overcrowded vocations.
Through Wednesday and Thursday Bastogne battled almost continuously on its perimeter, suffered tortures in the overcrowded town. Shells poured in from all sides. Some 3,000 civilians huddled in cellars with the wounded. Food was running low-the Germans had also captured a quartermaster unit. Ammunition was dwindling-an ordnance...
The Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel warned last week that the G.I. Bill may prove "extraordinarily costly-both in human and financial terms" if veterans are allowed to prepare for unsuitable or overcrowded vocations.
In Oregon he had his special train pulled over the Southern Pacific's backwoods Siskiyou line, on which no national candidate had traveled for 20 years. This enabled him to pan for votes in untouched gravel at Grants Pass, Medford and Roseburg. In Oregon, too, he made the voters...