Word: skyscraperism
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Buildings: 6) No. 60 Wall Street, Manhattan, first skyscraper to have double-deck elevators. 7) The dome on the planned Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. With a 168-ft. diameter, it will be world's biggest. 8) The world's biggest single unit grain elevator at...
¶ International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. pointedly ignored furious charges by the Rumanian General Staff last week that the small "skyscraper" which I. T. & T is building in Bucharest "will make the capital of Rumania a target for enemy bombs."
A moonbeam, a birthday, a treasure chest, a skyscraper and a reality engaged Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. last week.
The birthday, the moonbeams, the skyscraper and treasure chest were pleasant things. The reality was not. It was the same reality which has caused many a semi-retired executive to return to his desk, including John North Willys. Errett Lobban Cord, Henry Holiday Timken, Otto Hermann Kahn. It was the...
The difference may be in the man. Both worked in industrial subjects, both were Carl Sandburgs in the field of painting. Just as Sandburg found as much beauty in the steel of a skyscraper as in the waving wheat, so Pennell and Beneker were not so blinded by the beauty...