Word: skyscraperism
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¶ A "shotgun" microphone that can be aimed at a point up to several hundred yards away, pick up even a hushed conversation. Fair game: conversations in a nearby house, a skyscraper across the street, a boat on a lake. Best protection against the shotgun: talk behind closed windows.
Free Lunches. To do a better job selling insurance-and spreading loans evenly throughout the economy-Shanks kicked off the biggest decentralization program in the history of U.S. insurance. Since 1946 the Pru has opened six regional offices spread across the U.S. and Canada. Shanks laid out more than $10...
Solid Gold Skyscraper. Reynolds Metal Co. is supplying gold-colored aluminum to brighten the facade of a 34-story office building now rising in Manhattan. Reynolds produced the color by an electrolytic process which covers aluminum with a gold-impregnated hard aluminum-oxide skin.
To the layman the answer seems as self-evident as which way is up. To those who have tried to design one the solution is more complicated. Says Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale...
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which once considered moving its home from Manhattan to suburban Westchester County, last week announced plans for a new office in the city. Next year Union Carbide will start work on a 52-story, $46 million steel-and-glass skyscraper on the Park Avenue site of...