Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...site once occupied by the main Warsaw railway station had arisen a German restaurant...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...
...witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort La Presentation, built by the French in 1749 for the protection of its mission among the Indians of the Five Nations...
...entire U. S. there would seem no spot less disturbed by World War II, no site better fitted for a Shangri-La, if one could be found anywhere, than the high, autumnal fortress of Rocky Mountain Park. And if there was one U. S. citizen who seemed entitled to meditate on the mountains, undisturbed by the war, it was the genial, autumnal William Allen White, 72, editor of the Emporia Gazette for 45 years, onetime novelist, commentator, amateur politician but now chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...