Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This campaign for China's relief goes into five separate funds, buys food and clothing for refugees (one U.S. dollar provides necessities for a homeless civilian for three weeks), medical supplies (two U.S. dollars pay for enough chloroform for 80 operations), helps support orphanages, schools to train Chinese leaders, industrial cooperatives...
This time unknown planes droned for two dark hours above the city, which kept up anti-aircraft fire, before anything dropped. Then four bombs fell, killing 34, injuring 120, leaving 500 homeless. This week Dublin identified bomb fragments as German, protested to Berlin, which had acknowledged bombings of Eire. Dublin police suspected, as before, that Nazi planes had been lost over Eire, that the bombing had been a murderous form of jettison...
...efforts to specialize the cotton failed; Chaco cotton had to compete in a glutted world market for cheap, ungraded cotton. Then war cut off one of the few sure markets, Germany. Calls came for interest payments that could not be met. Some people gave up, wandered off as homeless pickers. As land prices collapsed, others rebelled...
...dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...
Recurrent dream of many a homeless European and most refugee relief organizations is of pioneering colonies in the New World where refugees may live off the land, build themselves self-supporting communities. So far the only place this dream has come even close to reality is the Dominican Republic, whose boss, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, offers land and conditional citizenship to sponsored immigrants. There nine refugee settlements have been set up, eight for Spanish Republicans, one (mostly) for German Jews. But last week, looking the colonies over, reporters found the realities none too pleasant...