Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west and northeast, industrial centers had suffered heavily. Siemens stadt was aflame, the area from the center of town out toward Pankow leveled. Some 500,000 Berliners were homeless. No one was unemployed; those who found their places of work bombed out were put to work clearing the street and repairing the damage...
Through Calcutta's crowded streets a destitute army over 100,000 strong roamed foodless, homeless, hopeless. Families were jerked apart as mothers peddled daughters for a few rupees. Sons committed suicide to conserve scanty family stores. All around lay the hunger-shriveled dead awaiting, sometimes for hours, the arrival of corpse-removal squads...
...From the bomb-shambles that once was Hamburg, civilian jitters spreading through the Reich-making it necessary to evacuate Berlin, sending a million homeless Germans shuffling down roads to nowhere, rousing scared German workers to strike, stirring imported foreign labor to clamor for repatriation...
...states rivers settled back into their banks. The dead: 21. The homeless: 50,000 families (160,000 people). The damage: 2,000,000 seeded acres-in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma-rain-soaked, mud-packed...
...cluttered Mississippi, the Red Cross and other relief workers rustled up army tents, passed out hot food, herded refugees into improvised typhoid-quarantine stations. Army engineers who had stood guard at flood-menaced war plants, and the 38,000 soldiers who had fought the crumbling levees, now helped the homeless...