Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lindbergh. "Oh, my, my," said the airport man. Minutes later Lindbergh took off to look over a 15,000-acre site offered free to the U.S. Air Force for its long-planned West Point of the air. Last week Air Secretary Harold Talbott, guided by Lindbergh's survey, announced his choice for the new U.S. Air Academy: the Colorado Springs tract...
...Designating San Francisco as the site of the next meeting...
Even at home, Mecklin can't quite escape the relics of war. His Hong Kong house is on a hillside near an abandoned British antiaircraft battery site. The emplacements form a perfect play yard for his two young sons, Davy and Sandy...
Until now, deep-water offshore drilling has been done from permanent platforms propped up on steel pilings. To move to another site, all the drilling machinery had to be loaded onto barges and moved separately. The DeLong-McDermott barge comes completely equipped-even with its own caissons. They are dropped to the ocean floor through holes in the hull, then jacks lift the hull above the water, making a solid platform for drilling. When the driller wants to move, he simply lowers the hull to the water and pulls up the caissons. DeLong figures that the whole operation should take...
...ceremony President Wilbur K. Jordan and Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite paid tribute to Miss Keller in recognition of her international reputation as one of the most outstanding women of the 19th and 20th centuries. The site of the Graduate Quadrangle is on the corner of Ash and Brattle Sts., next to the home of President Jordan...