Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holloran contended that most cities, such as Boston, have kept in line with the modern architectural trend by changing or waiving their building regulations. One member of the board remarked in agreement that before the Hotel Commander was built, the code specified ceilings eight and a half feet high. "I have been lowering ceilings for 30 years," he stated...
...people with a big sense of history, the Mayans even calculated time divisions to include a 400-year unit 1582 and ultimately an alautun (64 million years). It was, presumably, in carefully built astronomical observatories such as that in Chichen Itza on the Yucatan peninsula (opposite) that the Mayans perfected their calendar. Three square openings in the masonry walls fixed sight lines on the heavens for specific reference points, where the sun and moon could best be observed at their most informative stages...
Walnut Wood, a 17-room mansion built for Saddle Maker Henry K. Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates...
...also voted $18 million for new hangars and a freight terminal to make Logan even more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi aprons and loading ramps thick enough for heavier jetliners than any yet designed. New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco also expect to be ready with long runways and big terminals. Though San Francisco's new $14 million terminal...
...wake up to the jet age. Washington, D.C. has no commercial field adequate for large-volume jet traffic, and no prospect of one until the President recommends and Congress authorizes a new field, probably at nearby Burke, Va. Chicago's tiny (1 sq. mi.) Midway Field was originally built for the canvas-covered planes of 1927; today it is the world's busiest airport, and far behind the times. While Chicago has put $25 million into its new O'Hare Field, 15 miles from the Loop, few airlines are anxious to use it until better access-highways...