Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He said that the greatest problem which the communists face is improving conditions in the overcrowded and unorganized cities.
Economics of Defeat. When MacArthur took over Japan, the country's economic situation was desperate. For decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was...
For Puerto Rico, overcrowded (pop. 2,200,000) and long tied to a one-crop (sugar) economy, the path ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres...
There are terrifying scenes of human suffering in "Monsieur Vincent. Hundreds of pitiful creatures press hopefully into the St. Lazare hospital; the priest cannot bear to turn them away, even though the mission is overcrowded and the charity workers are overburdened. Saint Vincent finds reason for bitterness elsewhere as well...
English a is finally going to get its much needed face-lifting. After years of trying to teach freshmen the fundamentals of writing through overcrowded sections and dull weekly themes, the College's largest and most sadly over-extended course is up for a complete and thorough revision.