Word: skyscraperism
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In New York, able, bristle-haired Architect Raymond Hood (Chicago World's Fair) approves the idea of cities consciously rebuilding themselves as a cure for unemployment, points out that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years and likely to be reduced. He adds another thought...
The Fair is a temporary civic project to serve and benefit the city of Chicago. Radio City is a permanent private enterprise with a national ambition. The Fair will cost $60,000,000. Radio City will cost more than four times as much, and must last at least 50 years...
Russians love arguments. A thousand times in black-&-white, Soviet editors have argued that the U. S. "must" recognize Russia. To the tail of this great argument last week Isvestia, official organ of the Communist Party, tied like a shiny new tin can the report on Communists in the U...
Last week in Manhattan the American Society of Civil Engineers met to ponder the problem of bracing skyscrapers against the winds of heaven. Professor Clarence Richard Young, structural engineer at the University of Toronto, read the report of the Society's subcommittee No. 31, "On Wind Bracing in Steel...
Houses crumpled like paper. Police and firemen rushed to the scene; 25 were snuffed out when a second landslide crashed down on them. By morning 60 deaths were recorded, near the bottom of the moving mountain was a hole goo ft. deep, 180 ft. wide, big enough to swallow a...