Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatives; some are simply dropped at the hospital's large, white wooden gates. A few weeks ago, the doctor found a baby who had been left on the seat of his parked jeep. The mission, built to accommodate 30 patients, now houses 150, of which 65 are homeless orphans...
...apartments stood solidly, but roofs were ripped off. Frame houses were reduced to piles of splintered rubbish, or so scattered that only a few recognizable fragments could be found. Before morning, morgues and hospitals were crammed with 87 dead and dying. Eight hundred were injured; 7,000 were homeless, and property damage was reckoned at $75 million...
...century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard the good ship Galatéee, bloody-faced and fighting...
Amid the ruins of postwar Munich, thousands of homeless and hungry kids like the Panthers hung around U.S. Army camps, begging food and money, stealing when they could not beg. The Panthers were more resourceful than most. In the summer of 1946, the Panthers dug up a formidable arsenal of pistols, carbines and even one light machine gun abandoned by the Wehrmacht near Munich...
...Item got started on its story in February when a dark, mustached man named Jack Richter came to the city room on Union Street with a tip. Richter said that he knew of a saloon being used as a front for a brothel, where prostitutes were caring for a homeless baby who had been left on the bar. Next day the Item guided police on a raid and front-paged the story of the baby and arrest of four prostitutes and the brothel keeper. Richter then told the Item that he could supply other information. Richter and Item reporters went...