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...control of Chrysler Building Corp. (not connected with Chrysler Corp.). This gravest report Mr. Chrysler's representatives stoutly denied. They pointed to a retraction they had obliged the New York Daily Mirror to print last summer after Colyumist Walter Winchell gossiped: "The big $13,000,000 Chrysler edifice at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, bought from Sen. Reynolds of Long Beach, L. I., has been taken away from Walter Chrysler. . . . Money troubles." They cited the fact that no newspaper had since printed any suggestion that Mr. Chrysler's tower was slipping from his grasp. They promised a statement "qualifying...
...tallest office buildings in the world were last week officially opened in Manhattan. They were the Chrysler Building, 1,046 ft. 1½ in., at Lexington Ave. & 42nd Street, and the Bank of Manhattan Building, 927 ft. ½ in., at No. 40 Wall Street...
...block is now valued at $10,000,000 or over $300 per sq. ft. A few blocks away, at Wall St. and Broadway, a square foot is worth $600, while some plots in the district run to $800. No 1 Broadway is worth $200 per sq. ft., Broadway at 42nd $400, 42nd and Fifth Ave. $500. The land where the Chrysler Building stands is set at $250, while across Lexington Ave. the Hotel Commodore's real estate is estimated to be worth $300. The shopping district at Fifth Ave. and 57th St. commands $350, the less fashionable region...
...should Artist Kreisler stand on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway in the guise of a beggar and play the "Caprice Viennois" I predict that he would assemble one of the biggest listening audiences ever to crowd this corner, until he was chased by Whalencops...
...ghastly, unparalleled famine which continues to ravage certain Chinese provinces (see map), a famine so titanic that the Red Cross, despairing, has ceased to give aid. At least 8,000.000 people have already died. Sole agency of succor is the American Board of Famine Relief, 205 East 42nd St., Manhattan...