Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
Frank Lloyd Wright, 79, grand old man of modern architecture, thought that the Middle West would be a fine site for the nation's capital because it is "the heart of democratic impulse...
...brave design faced serious obstacles. Some of them were sourly expressed last week by General Charles de Gaulle. Although no site for the permanent Western command had been determined, De Gaulle feared that it would be London. Said he: "Europe must be defended in Europe ... I simply say that England is an island. I can't do anything about that, neither can she. And I say to you that Europe is not an island but a continent . . . The natural center of a defense plan is France. But for the present, France is hardly present. The problem of European defense...
...Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building...
Perverted Capitalism. Typical of what happens to Russian dreams is the case of the Palace of the Soviets, a huge skyscraper the government started building in the early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...