Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U.S. Military Government completed plans for repatriation of Germans and Austrians. About 200,000 Germans would come from Austria into the overcrowded U.S. zone of occupation. All Austrians in Germany would plod back to hamlets and cities from which war had wrenched them.
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For example: from Chungking Mr. S. S. Luo of the Chienchwan Coal Mining Co. Ltd. writes that for more than a year now he has taken one full day each week to travel 36 difficult miles on an "overworked, overcrowded bus" to pay 150 Chinese dollars for a single copy...
Allied airmen would always remember April 1945. In its first 17 days they had knocked out 4,139 German planes, most of them parked on overcrowded airfields. In one wonderful day of ground-gunning, Allied pilots had racked up the amazing total of 1,016 destroyed aloft and aground. Last...
Through the smoke of fires set by R.A.F. and U.S. bombers, overcrowded Berlin could see the lightning and hear the thunder of Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army guns. They were trained, as Berlin knew, on the ancient fortress of Küstrin and five-times...