Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor O'Dwyer, who desperately wanted to keep U.N. in New York, hurriedly got in touch with a potent member of his U.N. site committee, young Nelson Rockefeller, just in by plane from Mexico. Nelson immediately got in touch with his dad, John D. Jr. John D. got out his checkbook...
...view of the limited transmission range, the proximity of the ten-acre site on Soldiers Field Road will offer superior reception for the potential Cambridge audience. The station will be linked to the nation-wide system of the National Broadcasting Company...
...answer, the U.S. announced that it actually favored an East Coast site. Entering into the spirit of things, Great Britain scratched its Westchester entry, shifted its rider to Philadelphia. Angrily the Philippines' General Carlos P. Romulo cried: "Now we find the Soviet Union threatening a new kind of veto...
...YORK, December 12. The 54 nations permanent headquarters committee for the United Nations Assembly voted 33 to 7 last night to accept the offer of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. of an $8,500,000 skyscraper site in Manhattan, as the permanent home of the world organization. The decision now goes to the general assembly for approval...
First, Lazarus offered to buy out Houston's old Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co. When the firm refused to sell, Lazarus bought a store site, threatened to come in as a competitor. Worried Foley's then sold for $4,300,000. (Lazarus also got an option on another site tagged at $1,250,000, talked Woolworth's into buying it for $3,000,000.) With Foley's he plans to test his newest theory that department stores must mechanize or operating costs will zoom when the current abnormal volume falls...