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Cold statistics (the seating capacity of the dining halls is about sixty-five percent of the number expected to be using them) make it plain that the traditional 8:29 1/2 morning rush for toast and coffee has gone the way of many another pre-war luxury...
...Brahmaputra. In the Ganges valley and in the great plateau to the south (see map) the Hindus predominate. They work their own or rented fields with wooden plows, make an average of 4? a day and have a life expectancy of 27 years (U.S. life expectancy: 61 years). Seventy percent of all India lives on the soil. Ten percent is crowded in the world's worst slums in the great industrial cities (steel, jute, cotton) of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. In this vast land of riches, riots, peacocks and poverty the British have invested at least...
Optimistically predicting a post-war "per capita real income 35 to 50 percent higher than before the war," Alvin H. Hansen, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, stated that far stiffer taxes and compulsory savings are vitally necessary to bring about victory...
Masani stated that the Cripps mission failed and, due to its frustration, caused a wave of anti-Britsh feeling. He said that the Indian peasants, who composed 90 percent of the population, were almost starving and were quite indifferent to the outcome of the present world conflict...
...anti-British group is composed of the middle class which is about ten percent of the population. Masani attend that unless the situation were remedied immediately, the same thing that occurred in Burma and Malaya would be repeated in India. "A starving nation is unable to fight," he said...