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And Co-Builder Of the Union TerminalCompany HeadGeorge Abel,ConstructionWarehousecity joined the Chamber in securing 160 acres of land for the U.S. Veterans Hospital. The Seventh-day Adventist regional headquarters were successfully located permanently in College View. Omaha efforts to remove from Lincoln the Federal Relief Headquarters with its $500,000 payroll were beaten.When relief offices had to be moved from the State-house for the coming session of the Legislature, Omaha bidfor the office. The Chamber countered by finding space inthe Union Terminal Warehouse at 16th and W and paying part of the rent.*In the depression, the Union Terminal Warehouse, built by George Abel and financier Charles Stuart, would house many federal offices, including the Treasury Dept., WPA NYA, Resettlement Administration, AAA, and in 11)36 the Soil Conservation Service, which played so vital a roie in ou conservation and flood control efforts in Lincoln’s own bait Creek watershed. An average of 300 federal AmnW**to Washington to help secure these payrolls.
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Lincoln Evening Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Apr 26, 1959
Page 48
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