1
Life for the masses means dirt and disease, ugly factories, sordid homes, mean streets.
2
Zhabei had been something of a slum-fullof old, shabby, ramshackle houses and dirty, ugly factories.
3
Sometimes a brief tour: a glimpse of the sea in one district, towering forests in another, ugly factories, fields of wheat, stinking refineries.
4
"Monstrous muddle of things we have got," I said, "jumbled streets, ugly population, ugly factories-