Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week President Hoover read this press headline: MARINES BUILDING CAMP FOR HOOVER. The accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual...
...down to $22, to $20. to $18 until someone finally bought it. Many a thrifty Boston housewife, eyeing some Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored up much Filene goodwill through his habit of giving away merchandise, particularly to children...
History of the two companies goes back to 1812, when both Bank of America and Phenix National were founded. During its entire 117 years of business life, Bank of America has not budged from its Wall-and-William-Streets site, though its present building was erected in 1926. Amadeo Peter Giannini acquired control (from Ralph Jonas and Associates in Financial & Industrial Securities Corp.) in 1928, added to it two smaller Giannini banks and the N. A. (National Association) portion of its name. The Phenix Bank merged with Chatham National (founded 1850) in 1911, added other banks...
...gymnasium. The chemical laboratory and the fine arts building have been finished, and we hope very much that before another year the new indoor athletic building will be in use also. I hope the graduates who are returning for their reunions will find time to visit the site of this building. It is made possible through the generous gifts of three anonymous donors, but unfortunately the building cannot be finished unless $200,000 is forthcoming before late fall...
...explorers and geologists pointed out that there was good reason to believe that the Aztecs used and exploited petroleum. The immense, ornate 17th Century cathedral was built on the site of the great sacrificial pyramid destroyed by Cortez in 1521. New evidence points to the fact that the pyramid had covered a primitive oil well. While the scientists talked and planned, pious Mexicans visioned in shocked silence the desecration of one of America's oldest and holiest shrines...