Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that it was unsuitable, suggested another location "15 miles out in the woods" where construction and transportation costs would be multiplied...
Walsh: [Chadwick] was accompanied by T. D. Jollie, chief engineer for Alcoa. . . . They drove by twice, but nobody got out and looked over the site. Later Chadwick called and said that Jollie declared it would...
While Ickes vacationed last week his aides revealed that he had reversed his policy: in the future the winner in all cases of identical bidding will be the firm nearest to the site of project. Reasons were two: 1) defense transportation shortage; 2) Mr. Ickes now believes that this procedure will be so pleasant for the winner that other firms will be less likely to agree to identical bids...
...British Guiana, with a site for an advanced air base...
...designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island (Calif.) naval-base workers. Builders got started on Wurster's houses last month...