Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been flying in and out of the obstructed, 147-acre Washington Airport with their fingers crossed. During that time, while Congress after Congress has passed the buck on the question of providing an adequate airport for the nation's capital, option-mongers have been busily cornering most available sites. One they could not corner, however, was that proposed at Gravelly Point, because 1) it lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly Point, last spring he tried...
Last week the CAA, in its first big airport decision, gave its nod to the Gravelly Point site, immediately set about securing a $4,000,000 PWA appropriation, cooperation of the Army Engineering Corps and WPA labor to get the new Washington National Airport under way. A mile further downriver than the present field, the site lies three and a half miles from the centre of the capital, ten minutes away via the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Immediate plans call for a 750-acre field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded...
Martin Wagner, assistant professor of Regional Planning, former Director of Building in Berlin and town planner for Istanbul will give the first lecture of his course entitled "Site and Shelter" today at 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall...
Maxwell was careful to choose a site that would be free of vibration. He finally picked Free School Lane, a narrow little street several hundred yards back from King's Parade where stand most of the Cambridge colleges. Free School Lane is still barred to all forms of transportation-except bicycles and shoe leather. In the early clays of Cavendish, equipment was meagre. When the august Royal Society condescended to send up an electro-dynamometer from London, the rejoicing among Cavendish students almost became undignified...
President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...