Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows a dishevelled, drunken, and discouraged Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...
This week, with no rescue yet in sight, the Navy joined the operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
...forth from Nanking to airdrop food and ammunition. A returning pilot reported hundreds of Nationalist trucks bogged down along the roads for lack of gas. For the first time in the war he had seen from the air large groups of men actually locked in battle. Every village in sight was burning; the fields were covered with bodies. On his first runs the pilot had had a large rectangle into which to unload his supplies. By the third day the Communists had chewed it into a ragged L. A steady rain of shells poured in from all sides...
...earnings helped assure Federated of fourth place among U.S. department store chains. Still ahead of Federated (20 stores with the Boston) are J.C. Penney Co. (1,603 stores), the May Department Stores Co. (24 stores) and Allied Stores Corp. (78 stores). Profitwise Lazarus, with a $13 million net in sight this year, is already pushing Allied for third place...
...income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January 3, cannot long delay a start toward improving a situation in which one third of the nation lacks adequate shelter...