Word: siting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home again, Rockefeller got a business challenge from his father. To provide a site for a new opera house, John D. Jr. had bought up a dozen acres of mid-Manhattan brownstones just off Fifth Avenue. The opera house fell through. Undaunted, John D. Jr. decided to erect an integrated system of office buildings, courts and shops. Floor after grey granite floor of what was to become the 15-building Rockefeller Center was rising. Nelson Rockefeller's task: to rent at the depths of the Depression no less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space...
...Lieut. Colonel G. W. Meates was attracted to the Darent River site by an old report that workmen digging postholes more than 200 years ago found a mosaic floor. Moving in with a crew of diggers, he quickly proved that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...
...four sites around Taipei, engineers of the U.S.'s Vinnell Co. rushed construction of launching sites for Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. Vinnell, which normally takes a year to build a Nike site in the U.S., has undertaken a crash program to finish the sites in 50 days, though it still had no formal contract nor any blueprints. Banking on Vinnell's know-how, the Army last week flew in an advance party of a missile battalion from Texas...
...Negotiations are now in progress for theatre sites in Cambridge," Aaron stated. Current plans call for a 400-seat, air-cooled structure. He added that, while the final stage arrangement will depend on the site selected, the directors hope to achieve the most flexible theatre possible. "We hope to be able to use the stage with and without a proscenium," he said...
...those other millionaires. But I didn't have the guts to be cheap." Now, said Shor, whose pet gripe is the stinginess of the rich, "I got to be nice to them. They're my people." With only six weeks to get out and hustle up another site, Shor soberly made his second drink a short beer. "I'm saving in little ways. That's how I'll get my second million...