Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Essen I talked to an industrialist who was sitting in his bare room, playing Mozart on a violin. I remarked that it would be easier to abandon the present site of Essen and go into the open country and build there. No, he said, they had considered that. But they had decided that it would be easier to rebuild Essen on its present site: electricity conduits, gas and water mains were already in the ground...
...Fruitless Search. In the years which followed, many another prospector searched for the site of the Lost Cabin. None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
...Calais (95 miles from London), Allied troops found 50 smoothbore gun barrels, each 400 feet long, sunk 350 feet into chalk hills. The installation was partly protected by 18-ft. concrete roofs, impervious to bombs. But steady air attack had slowed the Todt Organization's construction of the site until it was too late. Also found were seven other elaborate installations on the French coast. At least one was for another secret weapon, still a secret...
Being light, they are fabricated complete in four sections (7½ ft. by 22½ ft.), each of which can be transported on one of the special trailers used in wartime highway transportation. At the site, the house can be set up complete, except for the time required to make plumbing connections, in four hours...