Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vacancy. In Barbados, British West Indies, a housing conference called to discuss the problem of a million and a half homeless West Indians was indefinitely postponed, due to lack of housing accommodations for the delegates...
...people who remained in Seoul had mysteriously managed to stay as "fat as quail," the vast majority were suffering from malnutrition. A U.S. freighter with 77,000 bags of rice was already lying off Inchon Harbor. Orphanages will quickly be set up for Seoul's swarms of homeless children...
...already become a classic in the modern tragedy of the godless humanitarian.* His latest novel, The Age of Longing, makes it plain that Arthur Koestler is one of those unhappy intellectuals obviously in need of a moral and spiritual boss. When he forswore Communism, he was left spiritually homeless, stranded between the Yogi and the Commissar, and believing in neither...
...Strike was president. For his wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million development program for Iran (TIME...
Finsterwolde's Reds make life thoroughly uncomfortable for the big landowners. During the postwar housing shortage, the rich farmers agreed to share their homes with the homeless. But, the landowners later complained, the Red town council carefully picked the most "asocial needy" to move in on the well-to-do. Currently, the Reds are plugging to build a football stadium. It turns out that the Communists intend to build the stadium astride the fields of two of the biggest landowners...