Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 24 hours' silence, Sofia Radio charged that the plane had edged onto Bulgarian territory and said that it was shot down by trigger-happy Bulgarian antiaircraft gunners. The Communist government of Bulgaria expressed its "deep regret." When a three-man Israeli investigation commission arrived at the crash site, the Bulgars had removed most of the wreckage...
...supply the 8,000 to 10,000 workers and families who will be needed when the mines and mills are all at work. For the families of the 2,000 miners who will go to work for Algom and Consolidated Denison, the Ontario government has set aside a lakeside site of 396 square miles for the new town of Elliot Lake, within easy commuting distance of the mines. The mines will be taxed to support the schools, hospitals and public agencies of Elliot Lake. The townsite has already been carefully zoned, should begin to materialize...
With that, bulldozers at the Dixon-Yates site at West Memphis. Ark. stopped running, but the political arguments on Capitol Hill rolled on. They are sure to continue at least until the 1956 election, focusing partly on the charges against Dixon-Yates made by congressional Democrats, partly on how much, if anything, the U.S. should pay the Dixon-Yates combine in closing out the contract...
...Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases at Las Vegas and in the Arizona Desert around Tucson and Phoenix. At Frenchman Flat, 70 miles north of Las Vegas, the AEC set up its nuclear-weapons test site...
Shape & Sound. Hats in hand, a village delegation waited on Le Corbusier in Paris, got a brusque turndown from the master. But soon afterwards Le Corbusier showed up in Ronchamp. climbed Haut Lieu, and after peering around the site, began making quick architectural notes. For Le Corbusier, who is currently building a new capital city at Chandigarh in India's Punjab (TIME, June 8, 1953) and erecting a second edition of his much-discussed Marseille "radiant city" outside Nantes, the opportunity to build his first church was irresistible. What particularly caught his interest was the problem of designing...