Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Oil Co.'s La Merced No. 17, which had been abandoned for three years, Lane-Wells's first test resulted in a greater daily flow than the well had ever produced. This summer, on the same site, the company made its 100,000th perforation, rejuvenated the old well all over again. Over 5,000 oil-producing companies in the U.S. are now Lane-Wells customers, at $200 and up per well...
Maria Angelakopoulou, a pretty, 19-year-old Girl Scout, had the biggest day of her life. In Olympia, site of the Temple of Zeus, she kindled a flame for the Olympic Games at London by focusing the sun's rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted...
...oldest New World building yet discovered lay in the California sunshine last week. Amateur Archaeologist C. D. McCown was troweling away at the camp site of Pinto Man found eight months ago in the hot Mojave Desert (TIME, May 31). Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole. The wood of the post had disappeared thousands of years ago, but in its place was sand contrasting with the undisturbed earth around it. Other diggers downed their tools and hurried up excitedly; such filled-in postholes are treasures in archaeology...
...land, teeming with game. The people who lived in it were obviously no mere nomads, but led a semi-settled life, probably living in tight little clans. No cooking had been done in the house, but near it was the charcoal and burned-bone fragments of a large campfire site, apparently shared by several families...
...Just the same, she thought that Negro churches might be interested in her idea, so she made the rounds. At the 15th she struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead. She put up her own $44,000 for equipment...