Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was just 20, he picked Los Angeles as a site for operations even before its citizens recognized its manifest destiny as the world's greatest automobile market. He also learned to love competition by practicing it; auto selling in those days was a murderous free-for-all. Angelenos still remember that even so noble-minded a salesman as Hoffman bought up wrecks of competing makes, regaled his customers with lurid tales about the fate of their hapless owners...
...Institute flourishes in a single handsome red-brick building, Fuld Hall, at the west end of town. Fuld is surrounded by lush Institute acres-site of the Revolutionary Battle of Princeton. The Institute's founders, Louis Bamberger (of the great Newark department store) and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, have given the scholars $8,000,000 worth of scholarly apparatus and comforts...
Back in Portland, she picked a site for her steel plant, flew to Washington, successfully besieged Federal officials for defense contracts. White-haired, handsome Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (then director of priorities for OPM) chortled: "Say, she's about three jumps ahead...
Pantelleria, site of an early Neolithic culture, conquered in the course of history by Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks and Italians, a stepping-stone from Africa to Europe and a vital traffic control on one of the sea's busiest highways, was in Allied hands. It was a stone under Mussolini's Italian boot. His toe is certain to be tromped on. His heel is in hot water, his bottom fair game for a pincers movement...
Once relations were established (and the chief had his watch), Kehoe could usually get several hundred workmen under a "dobashie," or native foreman, to clear the site and set up native huts. He paid them off in silver rupees. Some posts are several weeks' trek from Assam, and food and supplies are sent out by plane...