Word: skyscraperism
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But in no essential will it be necessary for Mr. Hughes to change his manner of life. He is a lonely man. These last years he has been making the "real money"?two or three hundred thousand a year perhaps?that he promised himself, when he left the Coolidge...
No skyscraper has yet toppled over, from Chicago's Home Insurance Building (world's first skyscraper, a steel skeleton structure) erected in 1885 to Manhattan's Chrysler and Bank of the Manhattan buildings now being completed. But several are in danger. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, journal of the American Chemical Society...
A windy clearing surrounded by a forlorn forest of scrub pines is the setting of the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. N. J. Above the plain looms a sombre hangar, home of the Navy's Los Angeles and of other dirigibles when they visit the U. S., a structure so...
Soon perceiving that the newcomer did "reflect Industrial Life in ink and paper . . . as the finest skyscraper reflects it in stone and steel and architecture," readers found out what FORTUNE had to tell.
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked...