Word: skyscrapersful
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When his C-47 reached Kansas City, Monty confessed his astonishment over the local skyscrapers: "An amazing country, this America, you know." Local boosters in Montgomery, Ala., ("a city named after me") were equally delighted. "Stonewall Jackson, there's a man for you. That quick nipping backwards and forwards...
"Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity...
But Novelist Sartre also found decay in the city of skyscrapers. "They are already historical monuments, witnesses of a past epoch. . . . I cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly...
Now members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan...
¶ In New York, a civil engineer constructed a model of the Empire State building to show that the only hope for the city's skyscrapers was to dig a hole under each and, during an atomic raid, lower them into the earth by elevator.