Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...
...transmitting, the copter must remain within line-of-sight range of the Mount Wilson receiver. But within that range, KTLA will offer its viewers close-up looks at everything from traffic tie-ups to mountainside rescues, crew races and forest fires...
...some Wall Streeters, the rise was a little too fast for comfort; they argued that no earnings anywhere in sight can justify present stock prices. But with the end of the recession coinciding with a foreign crisis, a lot of investors apparently felt that means either " 1) a rising peacetime economy, or 2) business stimulated by war scares, both of which mean increased inflation...
...Japanese traditions that dropped out of sight during the occupation, none seemed to disappear more completely than the zaibatsu, the huge cartels controlled since the Meiji Era (1868-1912) by a handful of great Japanese families. To shatter the economic foundation of Japanese militarism, U.S. authorities split such prominent family combines-Mitsubishi, Mitsui and all the rest -into hundreds of small firms, and the Japanese government itself adopted Western-inspired antitrust laws. But zaibatsu, like many another Japanese tradition, proved tougher than reform. Last week the influence and power of the zaibatsu sprawled once more across the length and breadth...
...Americans," she finds, after a sight-seeing tour to Colorado, "are too self-conscious about getting along." Whereas Britishers greet each other under the assumption that all's wrong with the world, Americans, she stated, "make a hollow attempt at cheerfulness." "Conversations start on such a happy note that they can only go down-hill...