Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yakutat, where the Army is constructing an air base, it rained so constantly that they had to lay concrete runways under a tent-a 600-ft.-long marquee which they rolled along the site as the concrete finally dried, hardened. On the muskeg moss plains of Annette they filled in foundations for runways with rock dynamited out of distant quarries and hauled laboriously over the mucky wasteland...
...team off and to cheer. They opened with three times three for Harvard and then gave each of the 22 men a separate yell. After cheering the trainet, the coaches and excaptain Cunnock, inventor of the tackling dummy, the crowd chased the barges from the Johnson gate to the site of the Union, cheering madly and ending up with a three times nine...
...part of its defense-housing program, FWA, planning to put up 300 houses in Detroit, asked for bids. The big Currier Lumber Co. of Detroit was $216,000 under its nearest rival. One reason: Currier's houses were prefabricated (factory-made in sections, to be assembled on the site). Although a housing shortage is one of the scandals of the defense program, A.F. of L. building unions have fought prefabrication from the start. They saw the new, streamlined process displacing their craftsmen with factory workers, their ancient union structures wrecked, their union bosses out in the cold. Furthermore, Currier...
...present building, replacing the old quarters at 8 Holyoke Street, was the result of a highly successful decade (their only one) following the turn of the century. E. M. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen. The outside was designed in the style of 16th century Holland, and the inside in the style of the "Blucbcard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched...
...spectacular during the depression years due to the fact that motors turn on dollars, are based on a long and respectable history of pioneer flying. Back in the days of the 1910 orange crates, now grisled veterans of flying formed the club which then held meets on the busy site of the Squantum Naval Air Station. Karl O. Langer, research meteorologist will act as Faculty adviser to the club...