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SOME IGS projects involve traveling by interviewers. Once 40 students spend several days riding every branch of the New York Central Railroad, interviewing approximately 3000 passengers. Another few students spent the spring in Cleveland one year, interviewing gas station owners. For the recent Career Planning Study, interviewers were sent to 35 colleges all over the United States...
Fifth-floor Cellar. There is little that is new about the use of air rights for construction; the idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story...
...world's largest commercial building, occupies air rights over the former site of the Chicago and North Western terminal. As a national rail hub, Chicago now figures to get a major face lifting because of newer airspace projects. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment building, have already been built on air rights...
...railroads, financially pressed because of dwindling passenger revenues and high taxes on central-city terminals, air rights have been an obvious and highly welcome windfall. Now state and local governments, equally in need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying...
...into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...