Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ragged Dick, the second of the four novels now reprinted, was the first of Alger's books (1868) to reach a wide public. It is a moral but lively story dealing with the rise to respectability of a homeless bootblack...
...acute housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory or Labor, must give housing top priority. Every homeless Englishman demanded his castle...
...people who had lived in the area were now homeless...
...Germany, there was an end to foxhole life. But the captives and the war criminals were still coming in. The homeless trudged down the endless roads. The task of occupation had just begun, and many felt that the job ahead in Germany was just as important as the job concluded...
...time that her husband, ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, joined the Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than English...