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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spanish Harlem has become one of the most densely peopled places in the western world. Social workers have often found as many as 20 men, women & children living in a single four-room flat. Beds are used in shifts. By day, the area's streets teem with children. In almost every block there is a sidewalk gambling game. By night, the streets crawl with idlers and men & women back from jobs as dishwashers, laundry helpers, needle-workers. The average wage for Spanish Harlem: about $30 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Sugar-Bowl Migrants | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Hawk '49, Frederick W. Kinsman '49, William G. Lawrence '50, Mark W. Leiserson '48, Bernard Loitman '40, Donald P. MacDonald '50, William W. Mee '47, James M. Menger, Jr. '48, Vincent P. Moravec '40, William F. O'Connor '49, Berol L. Robinson '48, Abe Schestopol '49, and John M. Teem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nineteen Vets Win National Scholarships | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Commuters named were: A. S. Cavallo '48, R. A. Fitzgerald, Jr. '46, Sewell Guild '45, John H. Murray '41, and Steven J. Stadler '48; while Eliot House men cited were: Edward W. M. Bryant '50, G. H. Montgomery '45, D. G. Outerbridge '46, S. Spielberger '49, John M. Teem '50, and Louis A. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Winners Named in Dudley, Eliot Exhibits | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

Last week Waikiki, Honolulu's most popular resort, became a deserted village overnight. A Jap air attack could scarcely have emptied more quickly Waikiki's streets, cafes and bars, which usually teem with thousands of soldiers and sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Attack on Waikiki | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...forces that had taken over the South Seas island were in a hurry. An airfield had to be built and there was a lot of work to do. Native labor on the island was short. So Captain Martin Teem sent a sergeant of Massachusetts infantry to a nearby island to round up help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Something they Ate | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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