Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilly Dache, dashing Manhattan milliner, came out with a "Yalta Turban" two days after the Crimea Conference. Purely by chance, she explained, pictures of costumes worn in the Black Sea area, had caught her fancy before the site of the Big-Three conference was announced...
Rich and sprawling Sears, Roebuck & Co. was embarking on its most ambitious foreign venture. The No. 1 U.S. mail order-chain casually let the news leak out that it had bought a $516,000 site in Mexico City and was planning to build a store...
...second international venture (the first: a store in Havana), Sears plans to build a new million-dollar building with a bargain basement, and a typical Sears façade-to be open for business probably early in 1947. The store will have a U.S. manager and Mexican personnel. The site, as with most Sears stores, is comfortably out of Mexico City's high-rent district...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...
Luzon was the objective. Every move by General MacArthur's forces pointed toward the main, northernmost island of the Philippines, site of its historic capital and scene of the bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor...