Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also faced by the question of how and where to sell, the Radio Manufacturers' Association in the Astor Hotel, Manhattan, found at least a partial answer...
Authentically the only skyscrapers worth while constructing in the congested business districts of Detroit, Chicago or Manhattan, where certain plots are worth about $400 a square foot, are those of 75 stories. In San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, where prize blocks are worth $200 a square foot, the most profitable buildings must be just 63 stories high. No building should be constructed that high in St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or lesser communities, because land values there are too low to warrant the expense. Their land is comparatively cheap because they have no need for the business congestion which...
...total stock market value of those shares was worth last week $295,892,503, that these greatly increasing profits are due largely to the company's electrical subsidiaries and their prospects. Friends of Mr. Porter know that he was born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin...
...England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...
...Manhattan dramatic critics Crier Woollcott was once the most conspicuous if not the most famed. A certain peculiarity of gait and of voice marked him as he minced in lobbies between acts, shrilly giving his views...