Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combing through the rice straw for thatching for new roofs. Of the 22 million people in South Korea, about a fourth are homeless. No matter how hard and hopefully they work they cannot soon replace their 600,000 destroyed homes, nor provide the 250,000 new dwellings necessary to shelter the refugees from the north...
...friends call him "the finest Christian in the community," Pastor Jones has strong views about race segregation. He likes Negroes to come to his church, and this policy, even in "liberal" Chapel Hill (pop. 9,177), has raised many Southern eyebrows. One night in 1948, after he had given shelter to some Negroes who were in trouble, his house was stoned...
...decline or crop failure, they set up such a political yowl the secretary must turn from his planning and play the role of fireman. Ezra Benson has discovered this early. Fanned by a gradual price decline, a sudden fear is sweeping the prairies, causing new agricultural groups to demand shelter from the free market...
This week the dream came true: the Van Der Tuyns were on the high seas, bound for the U.S. and a new life. When they land at Hoboken this week, James Magee will be at dockside to welcome them. As their sponsor, he has promised to provide shelter for the Van Der Tuyns and their six apple-cheeked children, to help father Van Der Tuyn get a job. Back in Holland, Pfc. Magee's grave will not be forgotten: Madame Van Der Tuyn's sister has promised to care...
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo by train, bus and rattling taxi. They swarmed over the capital like locusts, swamped the hotels, took temporary shelter in the city's mosques and jammed the streets laughing, arguing and anticipating. One clear, chilly morning last week, as the first light fingered the minarets of the Mohammed Ali Mosque east of the city, they headed for Cairo's immense, open Liberation Square. They had come to celebrate a birthday: six months of Soldier Naguib's reign...