Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealots' Creed. After a night's sleep and a breakfast pep talk to western Republicans, the President headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
Unawaredly, the Fortunate Dragon cruised too close to the site of the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific (TIME, March 29). The test released more energy than the scientists had anticipated; Aikichi and his crewmates were liberally sprinkled with the fine white dust of the blast, which the Japanese have since come to know as shi no hai (the ashes of death...
...grant" colleges authorized to teach agriculture and mechanical arts, and it came very close to being set up as a part of Harvard University. The state legislature finally decided, however, that a more rural location would be preferable for the new college, and thus the 1,000-acre Amherst site was selected...
...money-losing Follansbee Steel agreed (subject to stockholder approval) to sell Follansbee's plants and warehouses to Richmond and his associates for $9.3 million.* At the time, said Richmond last week, he thought that he could find a buyer who would continue to operate Follansbee at its present site. But after approaching 18 integrated steel companies with no success, he finally accepted the offer from Republic, even though it might bring doom to the town of Follansbee. Last week Richmond made an offer of his own to the town: he would pay a full year's salary...
CYRUS EATON is negotiating with Krupp and Germany's other big steel producers to supply them with iron ore from his enormous Ungava Bay deposits near Quebec's northern coast. German technicians have already surveyed the site, are considering supplying mining equipment and building docks at a deep-water harbor less than 20 miles from...