Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of gold-seekers lived in sleeping bags. Little Foleyet (pop. 2,000), twelve miles north, was jammed. Big mining firms like Hollinger, Mclntyre, Moneta and Vincent were buying up claims at fancy prices. The Canadian National Railways was already making emergency stops a mile from the strike site, and there was talk of putting in a spur...
What were the Russians up to? Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...
Nearby stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...coming New York City real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, Inc. What made it more than a dream was that by last week bustling Bill Zeckendorf was almost ready to make it come true. He had: 1) 90% of the necessary property (in the heart of Flushing, near the site of the last World's Fair), 2) the financial backing of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 3) the unofficial blessing of New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...
Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, previously declared surplus by the War Department, has been selected as site of the laboratory, and installation of facilities costing more than five million dollars is under way there...