Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that many people are homeless and many are injured. I suggest that you put in operation all the facilities of the Red Cross to assist in the required relief. I am sending a telegram to the Governor of Illinois that you will...
...smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began a hectic search for their fathers and mothers. The damage...
...dead numbered some 800, the injured almost 3,000 and those made homeless nearly 10,000. The customary freaks of nature were evident. Roofs were torn from houses, half-houses torn away from their mates. Some well-constructed buildings were wrenched from among weaker neighbors and destroyed. Men and property were wafted into the air and deposited at a distance. Small objects, such as letters and tax receipts, were found miles from their sources...
...fortnight ago, a Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore indicted The Baltimore Post. As dogs go politically nowadays, this was a homeless stray; the Post supported La Follette...
...fire destroyed 750 temporary barracks in the grounds of the Hama Palace. In those barracks lived some 5,000 earthquake victims. All were again made homeless, except those few who perished...