Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week busy offsetting Mussolini's claim to be "Protector of Islam." To England's Moslems the British Treasury, which is already subsidizing pilgrimages of the faithful from India to Mecca (TIME, Nov. 18), has given a tidy ?100,000 ($400,000) for a mosque, promised them a site in London for it. In Libya when a force of Australians holed up a body of Italians at the oasis of Jarabub, the R. A. F. knew better than to bomb it. Jarabub has several holy Moslem buildings and the British did not intend to injure the monuments of Islam...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...
...housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules Powder Co.) on land leased from farmers. The homes would house workers as long as needed, then be sold to the farmers to provide better housing for their families...
...North Conway a new and attractive building, a chalet-type ski barracks has been erected on the site of the Sunset inn main building which was destroyed by fire last June. This is part of the Eastern Slope...
...only did the group agree on a community-aiding work camp to be started this summer, but a committee was appointed to draw up a complete plan, locate a site, and organize students interested in the project. The steering committee tentatively consists of the following: Alan Getting '42, Frederick R. Rosenberg '41, Norris L. Tibbetts, Jr. '42, and Royal G. Whiting...