Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before sinking a large sum of money into a permanent plant, it is of course proper and necessary to consider the site for the plant. The main consideration in this case, as Mr. Moore has brought out, is accessibility. But it is hard to agree with him that Hemenway is in a central position and therefore the most likely place for a new pool. By citing the Linden Street squash courts as an example, Mr. Moore has made it plain that the center of accessibility is not north but south of Massachusetts Avenue. For it is highly probable that...
...proffered land, which was stated to be the finest site in Tokyo for an embassy, was once the property of the late Prince Ito, an Elder Statesman, to whom it had been presented for life by the Mikado...
...British embassy in Tokyo sent plans for a new embassy on the old site to London. The new building will cost about...
Asking only a nominal rental, the Imperial Household of the Mikado offered the U. S. a perpetual lease on a two-acre estate adjoining the site of the old U. S. embassy, in Tokyo, destroyed by fire during the great earthquake. U. S. Ambassador Woods is now en route for his native land with the Japanese offer and plans for a new embassy in his pocket...
Later on the expedition may continue southward into Eastern Turkestan and Tibet. In the same region, southwest of Urga, is the site of Karakhoto, buried capital of the Mongol emperors, discovered by the Russian scientist Kozlov (TIME, March 17), who is now on another expedition to central Asia...