Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian Government, rejecting the aid, even of the Red Cross, prepared to deal with reparations and relief unassisted. Estimators were busy. Damage cost was put roundly at $18,500,000. With fine exactitude the number of homeless was put at 3,952. Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava...
...believe that it is an insult, a coldblooded insult. . . . It is a foolish attempt to get the American workingman to believe that the Democratic Party under my leadership is going to prostrate him, drive his children out of his house and leave him helpless and homeless. What a stupid performance-of all the men in the world to urge that against a man who came up from the ranks of labor himself, and if elected President I am going to drive them all out of their home...
...reports. With the hurricane, centering at West Palm Beach, the barometer dropped to 27.57, believed to be the lowest reading ever recorded in the U. S. During the first frenzied days of relief work the death total reached at least 1,500. Unnumbered thousands were injured, 15,000 were homeless, and property losses of $50,000,000 or even $75,000,000 seemed likely...
...Injured-3,620 (exclusive of unnumbered thousands in Florida and Porto Rico); Homeless-876,000; Property damage...
Porto Rico. The storm's first major victim was Porto Rico, which it left torn and disrupted. The island has a population of 1,400,000. It was estimated that at least half of this number were left homeless. Chaos prevented a complete count of the dead, but early reports from nine towns indicated that 263 were known to have perished. In San Juan, the principal city, 300 chattering consumptives were forced into the open. Seventy lepers, the roofs of their colony blown away, were gingerly herded into an administration building...