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...Tall buildings rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from...
...Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
...Where? The most ludicrous aspect of the licensing laws is the fact that they can turn a man into the most desperate kind of pub crawler: with a little ingenuity, a good map, and much patience he can drink legally around the clock in London...
...were the Silent Generation. And I, whose first literary discovery was a book entitled Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, feel proud to be a member...