Word: skyscraperism
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The vitals of this octopus exists on the fourth floor of a New York office building across the street from the white skyscraper of the New York Daily News. In large, airy quarters the home staff conceives, organizes, lays out, and creates each edition of Yank.
The vitals of this octopus exist on the fourth floor of a New York office building across the street from the white skyscraper of the New York Daily News. In large, airy quarters the home staff conceives, organizes, lays out, and creates each edition of Yank.
A new and partly secret weapon of war looms ominous and ugly against a smoky New Jersey sky, its monstrous steel guts exposed in a 20-story skyscraper without walls. Its immediate purpose: to speed the production of 100-octane aviation gasoline. Its probable destiny: the overthrow of new oil...
Of the two prevailing present types of city housing-tenements and single-family houses-both are vulnerable to bombing: tenements because they make an unmissable target; small houses, because it is too costly to build strong shelters for them. The C.I.A.M.'s skyscraper houses would at once offer smaller...
Geologists in Venezuelan jungles, vice presidents in a Manhattan skyscraper, sailors on tankers, stenographers in Buenos Aires-some 150,000 men, women & children all over the world are under the care of the medical division of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, which has the most elaborate-and probably the...