Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find no January sale. Prices in the Soviet Union have dipped substantially, but eggs still cost the equivalent of $3 a dozen, a good pair of shoes is $75. a radio $200, oranges 55? each. Yet the mere fact that G.U.M. is opening fills many with wary hope. The site that the giant store occupies was once Upper Row, the biggest shopping center in Czarist Moscow. For 25 years it had served as a labyrinthine Soviet government office: now, by restoring it as a people's shopping center, the Kremlin appears to be giving substance to its impressive promises...
...state officials in vain for a new school. The superintendent said that their problem was "a local affair" and referred them to the county board. The county said that it could not build a new school because there was no land available with a clear title, and the old site on the mountainside was too dangerous. Then, one night, a great storm blew up. Next morning the old schoolhouse was a pile of lumber at the bottom of the creek, and there was still no prospect...
...upstairs from his Manhattan office at 120 Broadway to see an old friend, William G. Maguire, chairman of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. Within half an hour they made a deal to set up a jointly owned company. National Petro-Chemicals Corp. They picked Tuscola, Ill. as the plant site because it is a key junction of Panhandle Eastern's pipe lines from the gas fields of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Louisiana...
Worthwhile Friends. Balboa, who knew the mainland from an earlier expedition, persuaded his new commander that a better site than Urabá for a settlement would be Darién, just across the gulf in what is now Colombia. There the expeditionaries founded a town, Santa Maria del Antigua, and set up the first European colony on the American mainland...
...roofed pavilion -he designed for the purpose on a vacant Manhattan lot adjoining the Guggenheim Museum. If Wright can overcome the objections of New York City's housing authorities (TIME, Aug. 10), a new Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat...