Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glittering Smile. Said one American, contemplating these subterranean revels: "You might almost think the Germans are going underground again, leaving the ruins above ground to mock their conquerors." But there are other types of underground Germans-the thousands of homeless in Düsseldorf and every Ruhr city, who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkholler (bunker frenzy...
...Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait of a homeless seaman or the importuning of a hard-working streetwalker, dragging a drunken, crippled U-boat veteran who staggers along on his crutches...
Most Länder governments are nearly broke. One million among West Germany's 45,000,000 are unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
They were the latest victims in a traffic that has made the southeastern U.S., and Florida in particular, the center of the U.S.'s newest and busiest smuggling operation. Since 1939, more than 150,000 of Europe's homeless refugees have poured into Cuba, nursing hopes of hurdling the narrow barrier between them and the land of opportunity. More than 4,000 were turned back last year, as they tried to enter the U.S. illegally through the ports and coastline of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. For smugglers, they had proved a treasure trove of desperation...
...Famed community for homeless boys, established in Nebraska by Irish-born Father Edward J. Flanagan, who died last spring in Germany, where he was consulting with military government officials on the rehabilitation of German youth...