Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tunnel which they call The Deep, peeled oranges, played cards, darned socks, curled each other's hair beneath the ancient arches, eventually disrobing because of massed body heat. Some 18,000 were sleeping there regularly, with only local Shopkeeper Dick Levy to keep order and settle camping-site disputes. Self-appointed and popular, he asked assistance from shelterers when necessary. Only medical officer was 19-year-old Mrs. Joan Powney, soldier's wife of the neighborhood, who has a Red Cross certificate...
...Westinghouse's World's Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal...
...site once occupied by the main Warsaw railway station had arisen a German restaurant...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...
...witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort La Presentation, built by the French in 1749 for the protection of its mission among the Indians of the Five Nations...