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Marshall Field & Co. (wholesale) has announced plans for a Merchandise Mart, with space for other merchants, to be erected along the Chicago River and partly in the air rights of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The height will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000...
Few blights more terrible could fall upon the Symphony Halls of the seaboard cities than to deny admittance to the English lecturer, or to thin the great richness of his subject matter by elimination of the educational question. But his contemplative eye should early learn the difference of the American...
The realization of what seemed to be a fool's dream has more than purely commercial significance. It is illustrative of the changed way in which men are projecting themselves down the years. The Pyramids insured the endurance of the dead pharaoh's name; the skyscrapers, tunnels and bridges of...
Then began a veritable orgy of sightseeing. Copper-colored cadets were motored here and there to gaze in awe at skyscrapers; to the cinema, to a baseball match, to interminable feasts and receptions. Nine days they stayed, then went their way.
Mr. Robinson: "In some of the newer buildings in Moscow the architecture of American pyramided skyscrapers is imitated, and the revolving street signs for the control of traffic remind the American visitor of Broadway. The newest architecture, sculpture and painting show preoccupation with mechanical forms hardly to be matched in...