Word: marte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's Merchandise Mart is larger, but it is also an exhibition hall as well as an office building...
From these two statements, and particularly the latter, an amazing story has been concocted by some elements of the professional press. Yesterday's Boston Record-American screamed in 90-point type on page one: "Drug Black Mart Bared at Harvard." Most of the other papers used a little more sense, but the story was given heavy play in the press and on the radio...
...claims to be the "world's largest commercial office building." (On the grounds that the Pentagon is not commercial and Chicago's Merchandise Mart is an exhibition hall as well as an office building.) It will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine...
Peachtree Street was never before like this. Handsome stone-and-glass office and apartment buildings are sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters for the Bank of Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate...
...prices would result in a 3.5% increase in the price of everything the Defense Department buys, whether it has any steel in it or not. *Along with recording ups and downs of steel prices, the Dow Jones ticker carried a report that Chicago's huge, 18-story Merchandise Mart was planning to boost rents 3% to 5% because of "higher operating costs, principally labor and taxes." Owner of the Merchandise Mart: Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the President...