Word: skyscraperism
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NEW YORK, December 12. The 54 nations permanent headquarters committee for the United Nations Assembly voted 33 to 7 last night to accept the offer of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. of an $8,500,000 skyscraper site in Manhattan, as the permanent home of the world organization. The decision now...
In this Peter-to-Paul manner, Emanuel kept the complicated corporation breathing until he had strengthened AVCO enough so that it could swallow both its parent, ATCO, and AMCO. By then V.E. thought that AVCO could start expanding again. With war in the offing, he had his eye on Consolidated...
In the 42nd Street skyscraper that houses the tabloid New York Daily News, the monster presses were still, resting like exhausted giants from the ordeal of grinding out 4,500,000 fat Sunday newspapers. Upstairs in Ihe city room, a handful of early-trick Newshawks dawdled over Sunday-morning chores...
Soon after the Wall Street crash, Patterson the scandalmonger strode into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." Next year, his $10,000,000 skyscraper was completed, with six...
Below the tower of the Bank of the Manhattan Building, thrusting more than 800 feet into the murk, there rained a shower of debris-an officer's cap, a parachute, the wing of a plane. On the skyscraper's 58th floor, beyond a gaping hole in the wall...