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...these plague spots live some 1,500,000 people. Two, three, four families pack into one flat. In summer the heat is stifling. In winter icicles from burst plumbing form on the hall ceilings. Refuse piles up in airshafts 15 feet deep. Basements are cluttered with rags and tinder. The better tenements have one toilet to a floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul...
...does not inspire even the most moderate optimism," gloomed the conservative Kurjer Warszawski. But the also conservative Gazeta Polska hailed it as "one of the most important events of the last 15 years, in view of the fact that Polish-German relations have been generally regarded as the tinder box of Europe...
...throw his reverse lever because he knew he did not have time to make it work. He closed his eyes as his locomotive's snout struck the rear coach, buried itself eight feet inside. The two steel cars jounced forward thunderously, crunched the wooden car to tinder. From its splintered interior were removed all the wreck's dead (14), most of its injured...
Threatened with domestic revolution Japan turns to a foreign war to save the empire. A U. S. concession in China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from...
Smoldering political tinder blazed frequently. Democratic Senator Glass immediately demanded of Counsel William A. Gray: "Are you calling any prominent Republicans...