Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial task of the contractors, the McCutcheon Co., will be the destruction of the clay tennis courts which now occupy the construction site behind Moors Hall...
...From the site of the fabled Tower of Babel in the south to the remote mountain homes of Kurdish tribesmen in the north, the young (21) King of the ancient land of Iraq traveled last week at the head of a caravan of Cadillacs and Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
...program; he dedicated a $12 million, 25,000-spindle textile plant at Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic to Iraqis: it marked the first time the area has been irrigated since Mongol hordes wrecked their elaborate irrigation systems 700 years...
...message from Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully only two miles from the site of the original ambush, searchers found the body of pretty Anita Carroll, shot to death...
...When the site has been cleared, it will be sold to a redeveloper, probably for light industry or commercial...