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NEW CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER, a 40-story hotel topped only by 1955's Prudential building, will rise along Chicago River by 1959. First hotel to be built in room-short Chicago since 1929 will have 1,216 rooms. Backing it is Promoter Jerrold Wexler, 32, who raised $3,500,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

The Pru project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Rebirth for Boston | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

To those who have only a nodding acquaintance with it, the University of Pittsburgh is probably best known for 1) the 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning, 2) Dr. Jonas Salk, and 3) its football team, the Panthers. But in future, Pitt may well be most famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Dike | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

In 1842 Author Charles Dickens visited Pittsburgh, held his ears and called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Comeback City | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Manhattan's building boom will add another skyscraper on fast-reviving Avenue of the Americas (TIME, Dec. 10). Rockefeller Center, Inc. and TIME Inc. last week announced plans for a new 47-story, $70 million TIME and LIFE Building to occupy the entire west side of the avenue between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: New Home in Manhattan | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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