sentences:  Men notably outnumbered the women which resulted in a decrease in marriages.As late as the 1950s families were still living in the wooden barracks erected in the Tirone area to provide temporary housing for the homeless survivors.Because of its dearth of historical buildings due to the catastrophic 1908 earthquake, as well as the 1943 Allied bombardment during World War II, Messina has been called "the city without memory".