Word: skyscraperism
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All that afternoon the Lafayette burned. Held back by policemen, Army & Navy patrols, crowds choked the streets, jammed skyscraper windows. Among the watchers was a small, greying man with a heavy accent. With agonized eyes Vladimir Yourkevitch, naval architect, designer of the ship's hull, watched the Lafayette burn...
For 100 years Hong Kong had stood handsomely for the Imperial Way of Life. The Happy Valley Race Course was smooth and fast. The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull. Shops bore names that...
Advice was obscure and contradictory. Skyscraper dwellers were no sooner given the comfortable assurance that they were safe within steel and concrete walls so long as they stayed on floors four down from the top or four up from the bottom than Harry M. Prince, OCD consultant, declared that 98...
Waite Phillips, oil-wealthy Tulsa financier, gave the Boy Scouts of America: i) his 91,000-acre ranch near Cimarron, N.Mex.; 2) a 23-story skyscraper in Tulsa.
The ranch is a collection of mountains, mesas, foothills and prairies. The skyscraper is the $5,000,000 Philtower Building, air-conditioned, fluorescent-lighted.