Word: skyscraperism
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Sid Richardson of Fort Worth. Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson...
For many Greeks this year, such quick fame is irresistible. Although elections are not due until March 5, there were 140 registered parties in Greece last week. There was the National Salvation Party, whose emblem was a skyscraper apartment house with St. Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out...
The morning sun fell on Manhattan's Foley Square, but the room in the skyscraper courthouse was cast in majestic gloom. The babbling of the spectators in the pewlike benches had stopped. Wary-eyed deputy marshals, their numbers reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble...
Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R...
But probably the most significant project under way was the hole outside of R. K. Mellon's office. On the first eight floors of the 39-story skyscraper the Mellon National Bank will have its quarters. On the next 30 floors will be offices for U.S. Steel. On the...