Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely guess is that they plan to expand Rockefeller Center to provide more studio space for the expanding TV industry. Meanwhile Rockefeller Center, Inc. last week sold (then leased back) 60,000 sq. ft. of its land to Columbia University, which already owned the rest of the site. Price...
...conveyor belt to carry coal from Ohio River mines to West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania steel plants, thus cut freight costs in half. But the required state legislation has not yet been passed. Coal can be transported in other ways, e.g., by converting it into electricity near the mine site, by converting it into gas and shipping it by pipeline. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. has tested a system for pulverizing coal, mixing it with water and pumping it through pipes in liquefied form...
...York Hospital, Surgeon Frank Glenn opened the Senator's abdomen in the hope of finding that the malignancy had originated in a specific organ; then the primary site could be removed, or treated with radiation. But no such site could be found. A growth was found in one kidney, but it was not the primary site. The abnormal cells were all over, and new experimental chemicals proved useless against them. The doctors (no less than 46 were brought in) sadly concluded that they could do nothing more for Taft than make his last days comfortable...
...entire job of putting up outside walls on the 26-story structure was being done in the record time of 6½ working days, v. eight weeks for ordinary stone-and-brick construction. The metal panels, two stories high and 4½ ft. wide, were carted to the site from a Long Island plant, ready for installation...
...Columbus, Ohio, a fully prefabricated, 74,000-sq.-ft. structure was being put up in 50 working days as an exhibition building for the Ohio State Fair. Parts for the rigid steel framework were carried to the site and riveted together, and 204 pre-finished concrete panels, measuring up to 8 by 10 ft., were bolted to the steel to form walls. The panels were made by the Marietta Concrete Corp., which in three years has made slabs (two layers of concrete sandwiching a 1½-in. layer of Fiberglas insulation) for 25 large buildings...