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The Wild West. In Detroit, while washing windows in a skyscraper, Moreel Bellfleur came upon a raccoon on a sixth-floor ledge.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

The slab-sided U.N. Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan's jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it as a great architectural achievement. Other people have referred to it scornfully as "a sandwich on edge." Last week Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picture-Book Skyscraper | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

"Paraded as pure engineering and applied geometry, this new skyscraper proves really to be a triumph of irrelevant romanticism. If anything deserves to be called picture-book architecture, this is it, for all the fundamental qualities of architecture seem to have been sacrificed to the external picture, or rather, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picture-Book Skyscraper | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

When Sarnoff came back in 1930, he was elected president of RCA and faced the Depression. It was forcing many a radiomaker to the wall, but Sarnoff kept on driving ahead. In 1932, the Department of Justice forced G.E. and Westinghouse to give up their 51.3% control of RCA (by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: The General | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Last week Chicago was promised its first skyscraper in nearly 20 years. As part of its decentralization program, the $9 billion Prudential Insurance Co. of America, third largest U.S. company,* announced that it will establish an independent home office in Chicago, house it in a 35-story building over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Divide & Multiply | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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