Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics. This problem, which has been a vexing one for the past few years, must be decided this spring if the Stadium is to hold the accustomed number of people during the 1929 football season, for the permission to build temporary wooden stands, which have supplied seats for the last few years, has been refused for the future by the City of Boston...
...these is to build removable steel stands which could be taken down after the football season is over. This system, according to Mr. Bingham, is in use at present at the athletic field of the University of Chicago where the temporary stands seat 30,000 people and are taken down when not needed...
...autumn came the news that Walter P. Chrysler was going to build the world's tallest skyscraper, a 68-story colossus towering more than 800 feet above Lexington Ave. and 42nd St., Manhattan...
...Chrysler carefully explained that his building had nothing to do with his automobile business, that it was a separate enterprise which he had been planning since 1924, when his personal automobile business began to be well under way. "I like to build things," he said. "I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun going thoroughly into everything with the architect...
...late George C. Boldt, previously manager of a hotel in Philadelphia, was brought to New York to operate the Waldorf and became the genius of its expansion. He induced John Jacob Astor, whose home was adjacent, at 34th Street & Fifth Avenue to build the twin half of the hotel; and this was opened...