Word: metropolises
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Wealth. The ancient City of London has become a small part of the present metropolis. In it is the Empire's financial center. There bank messengers run their errands in tall top hats, even to this rationed day, even through the ruins of the blitz. Last week two Members...
Bonham has an estimated population of 9,230 . . . does not claim to be a metropolis, but it is definitely out of the general-store class. . . .
Siege, filmed by 22 cameramen in the first 14 of the city's 17 months of isolation, concentrates on life inside the city. The city's normal traffic slows to a halt as gas and power run out and heavy snows fall; Leningrad becomes a ghostly metropolis without...
The Japanese ability of self deception has not been dulled. Last week Domei flooded Argentine editors with accounts of the first anniversary of Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Filipino quisling, Jorge B. Vargas, chief of the Civil Administration of the islands, steered another Japanese train over a verbal crater...
"It is not at all impossible," gloats Gold ("magazine of Canada's North") "that a very few years from now may witness the founding of a great metropolis in the bush of Atikokan, where great smelters will belch smoke and flame into the northern sky, and a river of...