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...have water only at night, if at all. On Quito streets Indian women carrying buckets in search of water are as familiar a sight as lottery-ticket vendors in Havana. Complained an indignant letter-writer in Quito's El Comercio: "In the morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital to see if she can get some water. She usually returns late and without any, so we have lunch at 4 p.m. without a drop to wash our hands. . . . Whenever I need a shave, I buy a bottle of beer...
Life on $1 a Day. But go instead to the house of, say, a streetcar conductor about 10:30 p.m., when most Madrilenos eat dinner. Ask your host, who earns less than $1 a day, to show you his week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend...
...Japan, too, the American-language craze had caught everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...
...dormitory for Kilroy's nine children. James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Mass., who says he first wrote "Kilroy was here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...
...University of Pennsylvania the next night, before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept 300 cops busy untangling traffic and quelling the mob. Pennsylvania's President George McClelland suspended three riot leaders, said sternly: "With thousands of veterans crying for a chance at a college education, there is no room on the nation's campuses for the current epidemic of disorders...