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Word: drydocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space for 700 boats, a theater, a ten-story office building, and a park. Cost: $36 million, to be financed by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Employees' International Union. It was the first time that such a project has been financed by a labor union, but in this case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Well-Stacked Apartments | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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