Word: skyscraperism
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Two Seconds. In the two seconds before his brain is paralyzed in the electric chair Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of...
Framed by tasteful Joseph Urban, dressed by Charles LeMaire, the production starts off with a musical satire on the Empire State Building. Point of the jibe is that the skyscraper has insufficient sanitary facilities: "There are three on every floor; there should have been four." Following this scatalog in quick...
All Belgian government bonds are selling above par. Savings bank deposits are increasing yearly. The Belgian bank discount rate is 2¼% as compared with 8% for Germany, 4¼% for Britain. Exports almost equal imports. There are only 62,000 unemployed. Antwerp shipping increases yearly, and the city'...
Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups. Some day, no doubt, one of those accidents will cause death. The safety features which insure the 'giro against tumbling plummet-like from the sky are not supposed to be proof against every...
Having in his first two lectures developed the most important general aspect of his theory, Wright devotes the remaining four to more specific matters. An interesting chapter on the death of the cornice, which long since outlived its usefulness, is followed by a lecture setting forth Wright's revolutionary notions...