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Economics
Several adjectives can describe the conditions of Singapore after the war: disarray and devastation (e.g. bombed out harbors, lack of food and medicine as well as lack of electricity, gas, water, telephone…), corruption (e.g. gambling, opium, and alcohol was rampant), and inefficiency (the interim military administration was little help in fixing the problems at [...]
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