Word: balcom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...height. The highest wind velocity Mr. Young and his subcommittee found was at the top of Mt. Washington, N. H. where the wind blew 186 m.p.h. A skyscraper built atop Mt. Washington would have to withstand a pressure of 102 Ib. per sq. ft. Homer Gage Balcom, Manhattan consulting engineer, told assembled engineers that Professor Clyde Tucker Morris of Ohio State University is conducting experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure on the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building is more than 4,000,000 Ib. Seven per cent...