Word: overcrowdedness
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Last week three representatives of EAM and one from EDES were reported in Syria, on their way to Cairo. They were also reported having trouble getting permits to enter British-managed territory. Their visit will determine whether Papandreou: 1) achieves a cabinet of national unity, 2) joins his predecessors in...
On the Boulevards. Pasty-faced workers found war news crowded from the headlines by the rue Le Sueur crime. In underheated rooms and overcrowded subways, clerks and salesgirls read the gory details. Fleshy black-marketeers and their flashy molls exchanged sadistic tidbits over champagne and caviar.
Already reports this week spoke of a wholesale, panicky flight of Germans and home-grown Nazis from the Baltic States to the Reich. Refugees clung to the roofs of overcrowded trains. In Riga, ships were packed with evacuees.
Packers called for a pork-rationing holiday as cold-storage space got overcrowded.
The Stampedes. Nonetheless the U.S. public responded to the shortages with 1) extreme patience; 2) a dogged determination to buy something-for a good deal more money than usual-come hell or no help in the nation's overcrowded stores. In Manhattan, swank Saks Fifth Avenue stayed open three...