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But if the candidates could take time out to see it, there was a point to the pageant engulfing them as they swept from city to town to farm: the U.S., though waxing so prosperous as to create an image of a promised land, is nonetheless energized as never before...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '...
From ⅓-ton window units for single rooms to the 2,000-ton monsters that keep big-city skyscrapers habitable, every size and shape of mechanical conditioner will roll out in record quantities this year. The top-heavy inventories of window units that plagued the industry for the past two...
Taking Mount Rushmore as a model, he should dig into the Urals for a several mile portrait of himself. A more valuable reminder would be railroad tracks across Siberia--which could spell out his name. Perhaps glass-walled skyscrapers with his portrait in stained-glass would work. Irrigation canals could...
For trucks, Gruen's planners suggested a subsurface road network linked to the beltway. Recessed drives would connect with cellar entrances for deliveries. The taller, high-value buildings in the area today would remain, with new skyscrapers added. Disappearing to make way for the beltway and garages, whose roofs...