Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was another Midwestern teacher who made Fine realize what his statistics about overcrowded and rundown schools meant. Said she: "When it's cloudy we strain our eyes or wait until a little more sunlight comes in. If we had electric lights we could do much more work here...
A few hours later, Frau Budde died on a red plush sofa, wrapped in a thin army blanket supplied by Faseler (she had none of her own). Dr. Elfriede Acker, who handles about 120 frostbite patients a day, reported death by freezing. For six days, Frau Budde lay on her...
Panama. About 130 temporary bases were constructed outside the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone. Most of these bases (radar, searchlight, antiaircraft posts) have been returned to Panama. But the U.S. is faced with a terrific problem in defending the Big Ditch from the overcrowded air fields within the Canal Zone...
Some of the reasons: New York public schools are overcrowded (in one last fall, children had to squat on tin pails and fruit baskets for lack of chairs, and every day, because of the teacher shortage, hundreds of classes go "uncovered." i.e., teacherless). Many schools are shy of up-to...
In its final regulations, announced last week, CAA gave way a little. It agreed to pay half the cost of projects up to $5,000,000. The Federal share will then decrease 5% for each additional $1,000,000, down to a minimum contribution of 20%. Despite this change, $36...