Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was manufactured to give inspiration to national defense workers, comfort to the U.S.'s allies. But the achievement was real. Nine months previously the first shovelful of dirt had been turned on a site where the plant was to grow. Now it stood there complete, more than 34 acres of floor space, crowded with machine tools operated by 6,500 workmen...
...Fantastically poor judgment, misinformation (and, as the committee failed to add, political porking) sometimes resulted in bad camp sites. Example: "In locating Camp Davis [N.C.] the site selected was swampy area and in effect a peat bog. The spongy nature of the terrain necessitated the building of concrete parking strips for the mechanized equipment which would rapidly sink if left standing . . . on the ground itself...
Longstreet was still defending himself when he died in 1904. Last week on Seminary Ridge, on the site of his indecision, ground was broken for a monument to him. U.S. Army officers, his widow, Mary Pickford, a Confederate veteran took part in the ceremony; thunder crashed and lightning slashed the sky; troops re-enacted Pickett's famed charge. Southerners shook their heads. The Baltimore Sun mourned: Why could the monument not have been put up at Manassas, or Antietam, or the Wilderness, scenes of Longstreet's undoubted generalship...
...direction. Rows of such trees still survive here & there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian village in the Skokie Valley five miles away...
...yards away from the post office, was a good, warm shack only 40 years old. Could she move the post office into that, before she froze to death? Back came a letter from Ambrose O'Connell, First Assistant Postmaster General: "You are here by authorized to change the site. . . ." Mrs. Groenewegen made ready to move...