Word: skyscraperism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sherman Hoar Bowles,* 61, who parlayed an inherited newspaper (the Springfield, Mass. Republican) into a multimillion-dollar empire; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting with the paper founded in 1824 by his great-grandfather, Bowles finally owned large slices of Bell Aircraft Co., Manhattan's Longchamps restaurant...
The first thing they should look for is a 6 ft. 4 in. skyscraper of a man who wears loud clothes and has a surprisingly unlined face for his 57 years. If all Britons in the Middle East were as able, deft and unruffled as Bahrein's Financial Consultant...
Defeat into Victory. In World War II, allied bombs just about demolished the Ullstein block along the Kochstrasse, but printing presses in a skyscraper near the Tempelhof airport were little damaged. They continued to pour forth Goebbels' Das Reich and the screaming Der Angriff until the end. The Red...
In Brazil, the "land of tomorrow," Sáo Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said...
The 102-story skyscraper made quite a crown for the empire-building son of a Lithuanian suspenders-maker. Crown, who was born in Chicago, started out 32 years ago in the sand and gravel business. His Material Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never...