Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor rushed out of his office, demanded an explanation. He got it. Bitterly, Veteran Ramsey told how he had been ejected from his house, could find no shelter, was therefore moving into the City Hall. The Ramseys squatted until the city promised to find them a new home...
...most Nürnbergers were simply concerned with finding food and shelter and warmth in the soggy, smelly ruins of their city. Enviously they looked at the Grand Hotel (requisitioned for the trial staff) which was well heated, served plenty of food on fabulously clean linen, and had a bar, dancing, and a floor show...
...Father, today we give Thee thanks for the things we take for granted, for freedom, for security of life, for food and shelter and the presence of loved ones. We thank Thee that men long denied these blessings have through sacrifice and pain once more attained them...
...city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
Whether the Germans were ready for self-government was doubtful. Until the Potsdam conference all political activity in the U.S. zone had been forbidden, since then it had not been encouraged. To the exclusion of politics, problems of food, fuel and shelter preoccupied the Germans. Washington decided that U.S. food would go to Germany this winter; otherwise starvation and disorder would preclude the building of a Germany run by anti-Nazi Germans...