Word: skyscraperism
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Neck Out. Walter Chrysler swam atop the great boom of the twenties. He bought Dodge at a grand price. He plunged into the fiercely fought small car field, setting up Plymouth as a competitor of Chevrolet and Ford. He acquired an estate at Great Neck, L. I. He built his...
His Manhattan skyscraper, all but circled about with half-vacant pinnacles of the same vintage, by shrewd management actually increased its rent roll during Depression. The millions he had spent in plugging his cars out of season came back like waterborne bread. The day before Franklin Roosevelt became President, Chrysler...
That the new "set-back" skyscraper, by doing away with the old "Packing box" style of architecture has done much to better the living conditions in the large cities, was the theme of a lecture given to the Harvard School of City Planning by Ex-Congressman Edward M. Bassett of...
Mr. Bassett has long been active in city planning work. From 1913-15 he was chairman of the New York City Heights of Buildings Commission, and was instrumental in drafting much of the first zoning legislation, which led to the "setback" and "tower" styles of modern skyscraper architecture.
It was at Muskogee that his Oklahoma career had begun when he built the town's first big hotel, put up its first skyscraper office building and a $40,000 opera house. There, as age crept upon him, he confined himself to a room in the hotel he had...