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...section of grimy tenements, abattoirs and garages on Manhattan's East Side. He had planned to demolish them, raise in their place a dream city of Euclidean skyscraper hotels and office buildings (TIME, Oct. 14). But a fortnight ago he approached New York's William O'Dwyer with the idea of selling the whole caboodle to U.N. instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Mayor O'Dwyer, who desperately wanted to keep U.N. in New York, hurriedly got in touch with a potent member of his U.N. site committee, young Nelson Rockefeller, just in by plane from Mexico. Nelson immediately got in touch with his dad, John D. Jr. John D. got out his checkbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Weather Clear, Track Fast | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Until the shortage is completely solved, however the phone company will continue to operate under a wartime system of priorities as outlined in Civilian Production Order U-2, Dwyer stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phone Shortage Solution Forecast In Three Months | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

Students in the higher brackets are veterans who are either heads of families, or, if single, are receiving disability payments from the government amounting to at least $50 per month. Possessors of phones before the war also get something of a break, Dwyer noted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phone Shortage Solution Forecast In Three Months | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

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