Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antigua and St. Lucia, 200 miles apart, will provide stations from which the Navy can patrol the eastern entrances of the Caribbean. At Antigua the Navy will have the use of about three square miles on Parham Sound and also of a site on Crabs Peninsula across the harbor. St. Lucia, 2,600 miles west of Dakar and 1,150 miles from the Canal, will house a 120-acre seaplane base at Gros Islet Bay, and possibly other facilities not yet decided...
...Bahamas form a long archipelago, and Mariguana Island, where the Navy will have a base, is 375 miles from Nassau. The exact nature of the base has not been decided. Only at Trinidad, perhaps a major spot in the defense, had no site for a U. S. base been agreed...
Built on the principle that "the best training for democratic youth lies in the practice of democracy, fellowship, and hard work," the plan calls for the opening of a William James Camp in Sharon, Vermont, on the site of an abandoned C.C.C. camp. Named after the great American philosopher, the establishment would accommodate about 40 youths from all walks of life who would work on jobs selected by local citizens and supervised by local...
...antiquity. Last week, with the 1940 season wound up at Lough Gur in County Limerick, word came from there that a continuous chain of human habitations had been traced back-through the Norman and Viking invasions, through the Bronze Age to the Stone Age-to the oldest known village site in Eire. It was dated...
...about the redemption of its blighted areas. Last week it heard news of redemption from an unusual source: the U. S. Navy. Announced by the Navy was a full-blown plan to build new homes for the families of 1,100 Navy Yard workers on a dreary South Philadelphia site near Twentieth Street and Packer Avenue. Cost of building will be paid out of a $100,000,000 Army-Navy building fund set up by Congress to provide homes for defense workers and members of the armed establishments...