Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fort Meade's architect-engineer (Baltimore's seasoned J. E. Greiner Co.) recommended building the camp on the old World War I site, utilizing sewers and roads. The Army insisted on a new site with practically no roads, no utilities, but plenty of sewerage problems...
...bombed church in Britain (2,659 through March 21) will be rebuilt on its old site until an interdenominational Church Damages Commission has approved the location. So reported the Rev. Edgar Chandler of Boston, just back from two months in war-torn England on behalf of the Congregational and Christian Church and World Council of Churches. Already the Church Damages Commission has begun blueprints for interfaith regional planning after the war. Insurance money collected on damages to many old churches in declining neighborhoods will be used to build new churches in growing suburbs, distributing the parishes of different denominations...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
...peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys who really cut in. Their "take" in initiation fees and dues, Army men estimated, was at least...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...