Word: overcrowdedness
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Some of them know medical students who may be drafted too. What a waste of resources when 33 percent of the draftees were rejected for poor health, with our hospitals understaffed and overcrowded. And I remembered that 58,000 soldiers died of disease in the last war, most of them...
Mrs. Roosevelt had an illustration: in shipbuilding Bremerton (Wash.), 2,500 children of newly employed workers have no schools, no local laws authorize new ones to be built. More alarming was the story of Vice President Peter Flynn of C. I. O.'s Industrial Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America...
Since January 1 when ASCAP and the major broadcasting systems began their fight, the public has been on the receiving end of a bewildering galaxy of forgotten tunes. Rhumbas and all kinds of Spanish and French songs stuff the ether waves. Tunes like Tales of the Vienna Woods and Glenn...
American Export was just a good ocean shipping line until it set up its airlines subsidiary in 1937. resolved to fly the Atlantic. This made it a natural enemy of Pan Am. Round I ended in the Senate corridors last September when the Appropriations Committee unexpectedly failed to provide $500...
In the west, German armored columns thrust steel fingers around one seaport after another-St. Malo, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle-reaching for Bordeaux. German and Italian bombers repeated at Bordeaux their performance of last fortnight at Tours, dumping death into the overcrowded city to panic the populace...