Word: skyscrapersful
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The fog had lifted and a sharp autumn wind whistled past the skyscrapers, quickening the pulse of the city. In the Navy Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction...
On the Meadow. Perhaps a million (or so New York police estimated) had gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he...
Into New York harbor last week steamed two Norwegian whalers, the huge, 22,000-ton Sir James Clark Ross and the smaller Thorshammer. Two weeks out of Norway, they had hardly tied up in the shadow of the skyscrapers before their crews were busily dismantling their anti-aircraft guns, hauling...
Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the...
Seven years ago the "El" was torn down and replaced by a decently buried subway. Then the hard sunlight really showed up Sixth Avenue's tawdriness, made its occasional big stores and skyscrapers look prissy.