世界地产大王约瑟夫接受政府的委托,去拍卖新泽西开末顿一带的近两千栋房子。这一带的房子最早是战争时建给造盘工人居住的。然而到了拍卖时,真正在战时搬来居住的工人仅存三家,其余早已易主。尽管这样,这些“屋主”却仍旧以“从前政府命我搬来住的,现在又要把我赶走”的理由,大声叫 Joseph Joseph, the world’s real estate agency, has been commissioned by the government to auction nearly 2,000 houses in the open end of New Jersey. The houses in this area were originally built for construction workers during the war. However, at the time of auction, there were only three remaining workers who actually moved to live during wartime, and the rest had long been predominant. Despite this, these “homeowners” still shouted aloud on the grounds that “the former government ordered me to move in and now drive me away again.”