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...organization known as Guides. For a slight compensation they lead visitors around the building and explain it to them. The Vice President's Chamber is adjacent to the Senate Chamber and so small that it is necessary to keep the door open in order to obtain the necessary cubic feet of air to survive. When he is in the room these guides point him out as though he were a curiosity. I stood this as long as I could and then went to the door one day and said: 'If you look upon me as a wild animal...
...Nein!" thundered the green-police. To them the portly wafer teemed with untold cubic centimeters of explosives. Excited, they bore the package gingerly into "a courtyard surrounded by high walls." There they discovered that the senders of the package had given as a return address the name of the respected Prince Bakery in Salsburg and had cunningly concealed their death dealing substance in a juicy cake...
...diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building, and 114,000 more than the Equitable. The new building will cost approximately...
...space for $10,000,000, of which the brochure of Pittsburgh's skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial to the achievers of Pittsburgh" (TIME, Nov. 17). Loafer: "The soul in cubic feet. Achievement by tonnage. Unquestioning faith in millionaires and land-values. Gothic doodads for moments of sentiment...