Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moderate height, must "step back" as they rose. Architects were horrified at such restrictions on "individual initiative." But Visualizer Ferriss, who got his early architectural experience sketching full-size details for the Woolworth Building, evolved a basic skyscraper form which became the pattern for such buildings as the Shelton Hotel, one of the first important stepped-back skyscrapers, and later for much of the New York skyline. While adopting the stepped-back skyscraper form, New York did not observe Ferriss' plea that skyscrapers be placed half a mile apart. Of Big City Grand Canyons, Ferriss says he has seen...
Louis L. PERKINS Rector The Church of the Good Shepherd Shelton, Conn...
Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...
...North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president named Oscar Funk. Funk, who had handled Union Electric's expense accounts, knew where more...
...began a secret investigation, and Sam Shelton began a series of exclusive stories that kept P-D readers in a state of mixed rage and amusement. From testimony in trials that resulted it appeared that: In eight years Union Electric's Lobbyist Albert Laun and his friends had developed a slush fund of at least $525,000 which never appeared on Union Electric's books. One company lawyer had kicked back $111,000 in excess fees; another $42,000; a Kansas City equipment salesman had kicked back $70,000; insurance companies had refunded $80,000. This money then...