Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James A. Cronin, owner of Jim's place on Dunster st., offered $36,000 for the site for the purpose of erecting a restaurant with a capacity of 400, and three other bids ranging from $34,000 to $45,000 have been filed at City Hall...
...enormous Stuyvesant Town development of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., whose 24,000 tenants will form a community larger than all but 400 other U.S. cities. Mumford pronounced Stuyvesant Town "a caricature of urban rebuilding . . . considering all the benefits it might have derived from beginning at scratch, on a site as large as this." Snorted he: "As things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare, a great superblock, quiet, orderly, self-contained, but designed...
...country where the army would not intervene was Costa Rica, which last week replaced its army with a national police force. With dapper Junta President José Figueres swinging the first sledge, destruction of the battlements of Bellavista Barracks was begun. A National Museum will be built on the site, and the parade grounds will become a lush tropical garden...
...group of sports-conscious Detroiters asked the city to build a $14,500,000 stadium with 104,000 seats and a removable roof. Reason: it would provide a handy site for the 1952 Olympic Games if Finland (the host apparent) is unable to hold them" [TIME...
With the loss of the Straus Common Room to a University office, the promising freshman social program has suffered an unfortunate defeat. Cramped for usable space even before the Administration swooped into Straus, proctors and Union social planners are now searching desperately for another site. They had been hoping to use Straus for freshman dances, and, as last year, a series of entry parties with Wellesley. Now, however, the only other possible spots are the over-large and gloomy Union Common Rooms. Union rooms upstairs are shackled by fire regulations requiring specified battery-lights before they could be used...