Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombphlet. In Chicago, homeless ex-Army Pilot Henry Trochowski got desperate, had a friend fly over the city, drop 15,000 leaflets, hoped his propaganda would get him an apartment...
Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
...Marseilles, Gerard Vamuchin was growing up like a little animal. He had never known his father, and the Germans had deported his mother. When people talked to him, he backed away in terror. Like thousands of Europe's children, he was homeless...
Mexico City's 400-year-old Casa de Azulejos (House of Blue Tiles) has been a private palace, the Jockey Club, the Russian Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, a dormitory for homeless newsboys, and, since 1919, the home of Sanborn's, most famous American business in Mexico. Last week the store in the old palace became the 416th link in the Walgreen drug chain. In its first venture outside the U.S., Walgreen's paid $2,500,000 to Ohio-born Frank Sanborn, 76, for the drugstore he founded 43 years ago with...
...proposal for immediate transfer of 100,000 Jews from Europe, ardent Zionists saw only a denial of immigration to a million other Jews they want to settle in Palestine. "The central problem of the homeless, stateless Jewish people," they cried, "has been left untouched." Arab leaders were even more incensed. They saw the admission of 100,000 refugees as "an invasion. . . . Our reaction will not be words...