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Fault. Leland Stanford University maintains Professor Lydik Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40...
In New York City, a 56-mi. gale sang around the skyscrapers; knocked off the cover of a roof water tank showering a dozen women in the building's elevator; puffed out a truck's tarpaulin, overturning the truck; whisked a woman's hoarded wealth out of...
Sociology at the University of North Carolina; William Fielding Ogburn, Professor of Sociology at Chicago. With the help of more than 500 investigators the committee "looked at America as a whole," without prejudice or patriotism, weighed its government, law, science, education, trade, manners, morals, contrasted its skyscrapers and its slums...
Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away...
Other methods of measuring stress are being worked out by Mr. Den Hartog and his assistants, which involve the use of membranes, electricity, and water. The results of these stress experiments are expected to be of practical value in large building projects, enabling engineers more accurately to determine the strains...