Word: site
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. While they dickered for a site, Luckman's agents got options on temporary office space, a list of 4,000 houses and 500 apartments for the 1,300 employees to be moved, made reservations in 40 hotels to shelter the vanguard. To fill employees in on New York, Lever's prepared an 80-page guidebook on how and why the move was being made and crammed with shopping tips, subway maps, bus routes and commutation times and fares from the suburbs. Even the printing of this book went on in cloak & dagger fashion. Up until press time...
...partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...
...announced plans to continue its public service whenever the need arose. "Our big job in the winter will be to clear snow from Plympton Street and other congested reads," Mason said. He also hinted at plans to rent a rowboat and ferry pedestrians from Cambridge to Boston near the site of the closed Harvard Bridge...
Last spring there were persistent rumors that Harvard planned to construct the new Medical Research Center on the Dunster Street site when the current lease expired, but last night Jim Cronin, owner of the beer emporium, announced that a 15 year lease had been signed...
With the erection of University buildings on Dunster Street delayed for at least 15 years, Cronin's has set aside its attempts to purchase a suitable site for a new plant...