Word: skyscraperism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next year, TIME recorded that "the doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, have become fabulous." The ambitious automaker had launched Plymouth in July, De Soto in August, brought out Dodge and set out to build the world's largest skyscraper - all in one year. "Curiously, it was in...
McKay's policies have paid off: since 1951. the number of stakes (dioceses) has risen from 180 to 350, and the annual harvest of converts has risen steadily rom 17,000 to more than 100,000 in 1962. Mormons now open one new chapa week, and are in the...
Post has also begun to dabble outside insurance with great success. With James Ling, boss of Ling-Temco-Vought, he is building a 31-story skyscraper in Dallas. A Post mutual fund called Life Insurance Stock Fund, with a portfolio of life insurance shares, last year increased its value per...
∙DOWN TOWN. The time is long gone when the Flatiron Building was an architectural astonishment, and when the Woolworth Building held sway as the tallest in the world, but even the old soil that was the birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive...
Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a...