Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punished until he could stand no more, he turned tail, while 500 airplanes, U.S. and Japanese, roared through the bright subtropical sun over his uneasy head. The U.S. aircraft had the edge. They burst through the Jap fighters again & again, rained bombs and aerial torpedoes at the surface craft...
...picture window of his penthouse studio, Hugh Ferriss, U.S. architecture's most grandiose seer, has often watched dawn come to Manhattan. In that same studio for 17 years he has let his imagination conjure up the future city-magnificent crystal towers, highways like gleaming strips of satin, the aerial span of bridges. For a quarter-century his penciled imaginings have decorated the rotogravure section of the New York Times, the pages of architectural magazines. A professional at architectural "rendering," and otherwise untrammeled by blueprints and specifications, Hugh Ferriss long ago evolved his own self-definition: visualizer. Last week Hugh...
...roads are crowded with thousands of refugees who are under constant aerial strafing, suffering from food and water shortage and wearied from the pace that on the Shan States front carried the Japanese forward 350 miles in two weeks, or 25 miles...
...inhabited by people who are usually poor and who are not likely ever to improve their lot and who are no great asset to the community. . . . Continuous explosions of heavy bombs are bound to unhinge mentally those whose nervous systems are not as strong as they should be. Aerial bombings should therefore enable us to discover a number of incipient neurasthenics who, in the interests of race selection and social hygiene, should not be permitted to reproduce their kind. After they have been sent to institutions, their offspring should be sterilized...
...part of the bargain, Peru agrees to try to reduce her cotton acreage, substituting non-surplus crops like flax, rice, beans. For every 1% change in cotton acreage after this year, the U.S. price to Peru will move 1½% in the opposite direction. Just to check up, aerial photographs will be taken of Peru's cotton region...