Word: filth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler's, but because they are shared in part by both Big and Little Business...
...they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied the dregs into their dung shovels, hungrily sucked up the liquid filth...
...Russians Waited. Later in the winter a member of the Inter-Allied Commission visited the camp at Delfa, was shocked by the filth, the coverless straw pallets, the crusts of bread. He promptly got supplies from U.S. quartermasters. British soldiers pitched in and built a new internment camp for the Russians just outside Algiers...
...March, and high time-an epidemic of amebic dysentery, a filth-borne disease usually transmitted from excreta to the mouth, had plagued Creedmoor's inmates for three years. Six had died by the end of 1942 without action by the hospital's superintendent, Dr. George W. Mills, or the Department of Mental Hygiene...
...Beauties. The old Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...