Word: skyscraperism
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, long in the habit of addressing himself boldly to posterity, celebrated his 86th birthday by spouting pronouncements on everything from the skyscraper ("Ought to go out into the country . . . cast its shadow on its own ground") to the drift toward equalitarianism ("Going to be the death...
With a design speed of between 150 and 200 m.p.h., the McDonnell XVi is built to carry four passengers (or two casualties and a medic) plus the pilot. As an Army or Air Force jack-of-all-work, it may be used, after further development, to supplement slower, shorter-ranged...
From a Teletype within the United Nations' slender skyscraper in Manhattan, a message sped halfway around the world to the desk of Chou Enlai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China: the Security Council of the U.N. respectfully invites Red China to participate in a debate of ways and...
Warned to make their designs "harmonize with the historically developed architecture of Moscow" and not to copy "the ugly system of capitalist building," Stalin's draftsmen spread their efforts over acres of ground, but in reaching for height, they were unable to avoid imitating at least one American skyscraper...
Correspondents George Bookman and Mary Elizabeth Fremd began working with Government agencies in Washington. From Seattle. Bob Shnayerson reported the burgeoning picture of the Northwest from sockeye salmon to the timber boom. The general condition of Midwest business was reported by George Harris in Chicago. Fred Collins reported the automotive...