Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square feet on San Francisco's fashionable Nob Hill, a huge tract in Los Angeles, a jail in Boise, Idaho, Denver's Courthouse Square and sizable holdings in Manhattan. No deal is too big for Zeckendorf; it was he who assembled the land for the present site of the United Nations in Manhattan, and sold it to John D. Rockefeller Jr. at a $2,000,000 profit (TIME...
...Ideas. Bill Zeckendorf has plenty of grandiose schemes to keep the company busy. On his Los Angeles site, which he bought for $3,000,000, he envisions a huge shopping and residential center; his Boise jail will be replaced by a store building; for San Francisco's Nob Hill, he has plans for a $2,500,000 modernistic apartment house; for Manhattan's Herald Square, next door to Macy's and Gimbels, he plans a $5,000,000 shopping center with the biggest Woolworth store...
Chartres Cathedral, standing high above a windswept plain, 55 miles southwest of Paris, was built by farming folk. From the 4th Century, Chartres had been their spiritual center. When their Christian church, on the site of a Druid shrine, was destroyed by pagan Normans in 858, the people built a better one. Three times in the next three centuries, the church was swept by ruinous fires. Each time they made it more splendid than before...
...wasn't until two years later that Camden discovered that E. I. du Pont de Nemours had picked the town as the site for a $17 million plant for processing Orion, a new synthetic fiber...
...Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, curator of Paleolithic Archaeology at Peabody Museum, led a group of scientists to France in order to make some diggings in the La Columbiere range. The site of the excavations was eastern France, at the banks of the Ain River near where it flows out of the Jura Alps...