Word: skyscraperism
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Southern California, breeding ground of cults and quacks, of nudists, sun-worshipers, gland doctors and colonic irrigators, is also the home of some 7,000 harassed, exasperated physicians, and the second largest general hospital in the U. S.: 23-story Los Angeles County. Built in 1933, the gleaming white skyscraper...
Billy Hull held on to his money, was worth around $250,000 when he died, mostly in real estate in Tennessee and Florida. He built a home in Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper...
In his skyscraper apartment in New York City's financial district, he slept in a bed powered with a motor to trundle him to the open air, organized a campaign to put down mosquitoes in Manhattan, pushed the fund-raising campaign that got floodlighting for the Statue of Liberty...
Huey Pierce Long did go places. He went to the Governor's Mansion up in Baton Rouge, to the U. S. Senate in Washington, might just possibly have gone to the White House if he had not been shot in his own skyscraper capitol in 1935. Huey never had...
Last Friday 18 directors of General Electric Co. marched solemnly into the green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four...