Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest, most pretentious of Manhattan's projected business-&-pleasure domes will be Metropolitan Square ("Radio City"), planned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum (TIME, May 18 et ante). Chastely splendorous, it will occupy most of three midtown blocks which by last week had been divested of their last tenants-lean alley-cats and stubborn bartenders-and reduced to a great expanse of rock and rubble. Excavation was begun for the first building, an enormous "International Music Hall" which will cost $7,000,000 World's largest in capacity...
Years ago he had a laboratory in Houston Street, Manhattan. It burned down. He lacked money and desire to rebuild. He had an apartment in midtown Manhatttan, in West 40th Street opposite the Public Library whose engineering room he still occasionally haunts, and near the Engineers Club which he no longer will visit. In that apartment he kept a few terrifying but harmless lightning machines. The swank St. Regis Hotel whither he moved two years ago was no place for such devices. Dr. Tesla contented himself with studying four pet pigeons which nested in his rolltop desk. Maids complained...
...Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown district could not absorb new traffic from the bridge...
...went to the meeting of the $1,171,000,000 Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. It was a raw day. When he returned to his quaint old office he felt chilly. He called his car, went to his home on Madison Avenue over which falls shadows of midtown skyscrapers. (Next day the Empire State Building was opened.) Only recently had he come North from his Georgia retreat on Jekyl Island, where he and a small group of leading financiers have found rest and seclusion since 1886 and whither his most intimate friend, Edward Eugene Loomis, had tenderly taken...
...scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone...