Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flooded Families. Refugees huddled in emergency stations set up by the Red Cross or other relief organizations all over the Midwest. Some 30,000 families (100,000 people) were homeless at week's end, the Red Cross estimated; 9,663 houses had been destroyed or damaged. The entire population of Dupo-2,073-had to be evacuated by Coast Guardsmen. Women, children and aged were taken from Beardstown...
...More than a million Germans rendered homeless...
...inevitably the chief victims have been the dwellers on Vesuvius. By the end of August 1,000,000 Germans were said to be homeless, a total of five and a half square miles of German cities wiped off the map. The same Swiss correspondent wrote in the Zurich Volksrecht...
...populated working-class districts of Germany are reported to have suffered the most. ... [In Cologne] everywhere burnt-out ruins were outlined against the sky. Whole streets had been annihilated. People told me that 20% to 25% of Cologne's houses had been destroyed and 200,000 inhabitants were homeless.... In trains there is, for Germany, the unusual aspect of silent passengers wrapped in their own thoughts...
...years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement. The youngest son. Lieut. José Maria ("Pepe"), 32, banned from his homeland, risked his life in a Mexico City bull ring in a benefit appearance (gross gate: 16,000 pesos) for Ecuadorians made homeless in last spring's earthquake...