Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard by the farm was Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin's dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm," where the famed pre-War dancer and style-setter yearly spends some $16,000 sheltering thousands of sick and homeless dogs. Thither hurried the passerby with the six sick Scotties. A veterinarian pronounced them too far gone for recovery, advised merciful death. But first it was necessary to get the permission of the owner, one Dorothy Whittle...
...virtually no hills. Three-fourths of the city, at flood crest, was inundated. Its business and residential districts alike were in water, its Negro shanties and mansions of the rich. Its electricity was off, its power-station partly submerged in the yellow flood. Over 230,000 Louisville people were homeless, at least 200 dead (no official figures), few of them by drowning, most from exposure. Property loss was estimated...
Relief. At week's end the Red Cross announced that it was already caring for 676,176 homeless people, was operating 360 concentration camps, 108 field hospitals, had 380 trained disaster relief workers and 1,215 nurses in the field. But such figures became obsolete almost as soon as issued. The Coast Guard established headquarters at Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox...
Close on the heels of the flood disasters in Ohio and Illinois, the local organization issued an appeal for contributions of money and clothes to aid the destitute and homeless. Harvard was very generous in its response; one undergraduate gave a check for $300, and together with the donations of less charitable or affluent colleagues, about $500 in cash and quite a few clothes were received...
...municipal garment. Last week, after an unprecedented rainfall of ten in. in ten days, as the river stage went to 71, then 73, then 78 ft., The Bottoms was under from one to 20 ft. of water. Schools in the rest of town were closed so 40,000 homeless could be bedded, fed and inoculated against typhoid. Not all The Bottoms' occupants got away safely. A house with five screaming people in it went sailing down the Ohio as onlookers stood helpless on the bank. The Norfolk & Western abandoned service when floods east of the city washed...