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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's Aberthaw Construction Company was given the order to begin work, and on Class Day, June 22, 1903, the ground was broken at the site of the structure. Surveys of the field were made that same...
...years, Banker Thornton has boosted Dallas with the fervor of a man in love. In 1935, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, he persuaded the legislature that Dallas, by virtue of its progressive spirit and convenient location, was the right site for the Texas Centennial-although both San Antonio and Houston had better historical claims. The Centennial-in Dallas-was a stampeding eyecatcher, and it was only natural, afterwards, that Thornton should turn his attention to the creaking old State Fair...
...with this evidence. Hall and Mrs. Heady, six days after their arrest, stopped lying. They admitted taking Bobby Greenlease across the Missouri state line into Kansas to a spot twelve miles east of Kansas City. There Hall, in the presence of Mrs. Heady, shot the boy. At the murder site, FBI agents found a mechanical pencil which Bobby's father had given him. Hall cleared Tom Marsh, still unfound. of any part in the crime. Hall disclosed the most grisly detail of the whole horrifying crime, one of the worst in U.S. history. He said that the grave...
...from Foundations. Residents who wanted rebuilding aid (196 in all) registered with a civic committee and volunteer workers signed up with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The owners finished the foundations, had building materials brought to the site. Building contractors supplied trucks, tools and supervisors. Restaurants prepared thousands of free box lunches. The Flint C.I.O. Council donated $1,500 to insure all the workers...
...Burma project is no more ambitious than one the partners are already developing in Iraq. On the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, they are engineering a $555 million project to reclaim the Tigris-Euphrates valley from its encrusted alkalis, make it bloom with crops enough to feed the entire population of 5,000,000. Their ditches are following the course of those put down by another Army engineer, Alexander the Great. "He picked so well," says Near East Boss Abbett, "we found we could not improve...