Word: skyscrapersful
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Apartment-dwellers, nerve-racked office workers, pedestrians in city streets and all men with sensitive tympanums, pricked their ears to words of Engineer A G. Bissell, speaking last week before the U. S. Air Maintenance Conference at Mitchel Field, L. I. Said Engineer Bissell: "Engineering tests have proved that electrically...
All along this country has held the heavyweight championship in office buildings. Manhattan at first took the lead with the historic Mills building (soon to be torn down) and kept it with the subsequent erection of other skyscrapers, including the Woolworth and Equitable Buildings. The latter is at present Manhattan...
The skyscraper had no sooner become a symbol for business progress and growth, than the Middle West entered the competition. W. C. Durant, then heading General Motors, decided to acquire the championship in office buildings for Detroit, and succeeded in doing , so with the enormous General Motors Building?at present...
"Its skyscrapers will be painted brilliant contrasting shades to relieve the drabness of stone, the depression of congested life," declared Decorator Helen Adler.
"When the Daily News covered its front page with a picture of the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan toppling over in an artist's dream of chaos, while a line across the top of the page announced that 'Quake Rocks City,' it definitely overstepped the bounds that responsible...