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Word: siting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...location is only temporary, but even at that it is far more convenient for the Freshmen than the old site. Smith and Standish Halls are just across the street from it, and Gore and McKinlock are but a short distance away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Books Undisturbed as Freshman Library Moves to Allow House Construction to Begin--Plant Trails Freshmen | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coal Holes | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Republican attorney-general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make a new attempt, or may postpone operations until after Jan. i, 1931, in the hope that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Power | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane; Doyle Aero Corp. was producing commercial biplanes; a 400-acre municipal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Industry | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...less a personage than Alfred Emanuel Smith. Press and public had long waited to hear what he would do instead of being President of the U. S. He is to become president of Empire State Building Corp., a company formed to erect an 80-story office building on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. It is to be nearly 1,000 feet tall (nearly five times its 200 foot frontage on Fifth Avenue), to contain 34.000,000 cubic feet of habitable space, making it not only the tallest but the largest building in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Servants of the People | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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