Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near the centre of Manhattan's Central Park has stood for nearly 60 years a sprawly rustic building known as the Casino. Last week the Casino appeared likely to become an issue in New York City politics-a class war issue between Democracy and Aristocracy. The Casino belongs to the city. It was built as an eating place to offset, in a measure, the litter caused by basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental...
Arthur P. Davis, Oakland, Calif., consulting engineer (he built famed Roosevelt Dam) for irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia...
...time a photograph of the festive scene appeared in Tokyo's English news paper, The Trans-Pacific. Read the caption: "Life in the Central Police Station always assumes a jolly air following any outstanding piece of robber-nabbing...
...famed Manhattan theatres-Daly's and the Century-were last week included in a parcel of real estate bought by Building Brothers Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin. The entire block bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details...
Active, vigorous, fast-moving, the Chanin Brothers have made many a contribution to Manhattan's new midtown skyline. Their Chanin Building "56 Stories of Sunlight" has been completed for only a few months. In April, they bought the Majestic Hotel, Central Park West, between 71st and 72nd streets. Here they will soon begin a 45-story apartment hotel...