Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eastern Europe's roads were already flooded with the harried, homeless & hungry when, last week, another vast tide was unloosed into the swollen streams. Winter would bring history's greatest migration. Millions of Germans and many of their masters prayed that it would be a mild winter...
Twelve days after Tokyo's worst recorded earthquake (Sept. 1, 1923), famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a cablegram from the Japanese baron who ran the Imperial Hotel: "Hotel stands undamaged as monument to your genius. Hundreds of homeless provided [for] by perfectly maintained service. Congratulations. Signed, Okura Impeho...
...like to point out to you-the result of observations made during a two and a half months' stay in Austria. Everywhere I heard from the native population the reiterated hope that the Americans would occupy the rest of Austria. The streets were full of homeless people, homeless because they'd rather live as refugees than as subjects of the Russians. When pressed for details, none had anything but hearsay evidence to offer in support of their fears. It made me wonder how much of their fear was justified in fact and how much was the fruit...
...Moon & the Rain. If this made the future look brighter for the Allied occupiers, the present was dark enough for the defeated. U.S. bombing, of all types, lamented Radio Tokyo, had destroyed 44 cities, killed 260,000, injured 412,000, left 9,200,000 homeless. Tokyo alone had lost 63% of its population (dead and evacuated), 70% of its homes. When Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger led his Eighth Army in to occupy the Tokyo area, he would find it at least as desolate as any city in Europe...
...Nova, heavyweight fighter, was suddenly homeless-after his horse kicked over a tank of butane gas, sent the fighter's Los Angeles diggings up in flames...