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...their own home, and 10,000,000 more are living in rickety shanties or slums,--in the breeding grounds of vice, crime, and disease. And instead of being on the up-grade, housing starts have dropped from 100,000 a month in the fall of 1946 to a meager 42,000 in March...
...forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts go, existed on meager official rations in cramped quarters that made the Metropole seem luxurious...
Armed with their stout faith, the Quakers piloted their. Service Committee through many a mission of mercy that bigger, better-heeled relief organizations found impossible. But the A.F.S.C. is itself no meager enterprise. Its 1947 budget amounts to some $8,500,000 (of which $4,928,000 has already been raised). In 30 years, it has spent $60,000,000 in 22 countries on relief and rehabilitation. It employs 600-odd workers (of whom only 32% are Friends...
...military history has a somewhat similar incident. On May 10, 1864, Virginia Military Institute cadets were ordered into action for the battle of New Market, Va. Though ten were killed, 45 wounded, the 247 cadets charged gallantly, helped a meager Confederate force repulse Union troops who were seeking to cut the Virginia Central Railroad and thus cripple Richmond...
Ablest and hardest hitting is Durham M. Miller's article "Propaganda and Democracy." To offset the practice of the reactionary press of allowing the only meager, selected details to ooze through the policy-filters down to the average reader, he calls for a nation-wide network of intellectual-labor newspapers, the smashing of the wood pulp and press machinery monopolies, and the establishment of "watch dogs" over the public interest in an unshackled press. "World Government, But First One World," by Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis...