Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army softball teams were playing on a field adjacent to the ack-ack site where Mary is stationed. Our game was suddenly broken up by some 40 highly indignant British sailors. Their nearby soccer game had been broken up by the police for lack of permit to use the field. . . . Tension was critical between all of us. ... In the interests of international harmony we decided to withdraw...
More likely for future development is the northern half of the Alcan, with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...
...action starts with the rush into Oklahoma when it was opened for settlement. James Kincaid arrives at the site intended for Tulsa City only to find that Bogart had jumped the gun and had already staked the claim. Bogart, however, gladly relinquishes his claim in return for the gambling rights of the city. The evil monster thrives in Tulsa and practically controls the city...
...drive out pulque the Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
...Hale Bros, found itself stuck. With San Francisco jammed with war work, it had to move into Penney's old quarters at a still higher rental ($120,000) than Lurie's top price to them. To add insult to injury, Penney's nondescript store site was hard by San Francisco's largest department store, The Emporium. Hale's only consolation: the hope (and expense) of building a brand-new store on another Market Street corner after...