Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came the apparel merchants and an architect named Walter W. Ahl-schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space for 1,200 cars...
...delicious prosperity which would accrue to the Illinois Central should all its air rights on the riverfront be leased upon the same valuation, not yet announced but estimated as approximately $8,000,000 or $45 for a square foot. At this rate, all the 2,800,000 square feet on which the Illinois Central controls the air rights would produce an annual 5% rental of $6,300,000 or a revenue sufficient to pay more than $4.75 on each share of its common stock...
Into the harbor of Santander. Spain, last week, sailed the little yacht Nina, first to cross the ocean in the race from Sandy Hook, and declared winner of the queen's cup for yachts of less than 55 feet waterline length. On hand to greet the victor were the royal yacht, numerous other pleasure craft, U. S. and Spanish warships, dense crowds on quays and piers...
...Metropolitan Pool, the Bronx, Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, 30, widow, kept her 240 Ibs. afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...
Zodiac (126 feet) - Robert W. and J. Seward Johnson (surgical supplies) of New Brunswick...