Word: overcrowdedness
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Hotel men reported that plenty of rooms are now available in the nation's long-overcrowded capital. One reason: Congress has gone home, freeing thousands of lobbyists for vacations.
Like other U.S. cities, San Francisco has had its share of war headaches and bellyaches. The town is overcrowded, hotel rooms are hard to get, restaurants jammed to suffocation, liquor running short, public transportation so fouled up that ODT is stepping in to unify and perhaps operate the street railways...
Half a dozen independent studies traced job absences to causes more complex than simple malingering or hangovers. Poor housing, overcrowded transportation, fatigue caused by long hours were given equal weight with labor hoarding, inadequate supervision, bad scheduling of work, failure to obtain materials in advance.
The Logical Mind. In Edenton, N.C., town officials found sidewalks overcrowded with ex-autoists. To cope with the new confusion they divided the walks into lanes: one for shoppers, one for stationary loungers.
Maybe the phrases in London's overcrowded, smoke-fogged Caxton Hall failed to echo the thunder of Palmerston, the precision of Gladstone or the delicacy of Asquith. But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed...