Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suave talkers went from one freshman dormitory to another, telling the students that they were representing a "Senior Welcoming. Committee for Freshmen." They told them that this group was planning to throw "a giant blast," the night of Oct. 15, which all students, coaches, and faculty "would attend." The site of this projected party was the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel...
Technological development has had another effect on the Observatory through the years. Greater Boston's extensive industrial haze--as well as fogs perhaps as old as the Milky Way--forced removal two decades ago of the serious research equipment to a "purer," rural site. To the Agassiz Station in Harvard, Massa- chusetts, 26 miles east of Cambridge, the Observatory has committed the major portion of its reserves, including the latest of its purchases. Radio telescopes have the obvious advantage of not requiring a clear path of vision. The observatory already possesses a 25-foot instrument and is in the process...
Harvard Trust officials will decide next weekend whether they will plan a building of colonial design or a modernistic structure. The bank will keep the upstairs offices and the vaults in the basement of its present site...
...with the help of a $46 million federal loan. But when Columnist Drew Pearson dug up a scandal involving faulty ammunition allegedly made by Harvey in World War II (TIME, Oct. 1, 1951), the Government withdrew the loan, even though the charge was never proved. The Montana plant site and power supply that Harvey had lined up were taken over by Anaconda Aluminum Co., which opened a 60,000-ton plant there last month...
...increase U.S. aluminum capacity without building the Big Three still bigger, decided to try Harvey again. The General Services Administration gave Harvey a letter of intent, offering the company federal help in building a plant at The Dalles. Harvey went ahead and bought 500 acres for a plant site. Then new trouble boiled up. Harvey had been planning to supply the plant with electric power from the federal Bonneville Power Administration...