Word: subcellars
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...lather, was working on the new Equitable Trust Building, partly Morgan-owned. A plasterer sent Fieri to the 16th floor for materials. Fieri opened a door, stepped out into an air intake shaft over the J. P. Morgan & Co. building next door, dropped 165 ft. into a subcellar. Permanently paralyzed with a broken neck, he was carried into court on a stretcher to sue for $250,000. Last week a Manhattan jury allowed him $110,000 for his injuries against the Morgan Company and three other concerns...
...pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a roof-garden swimming pool but also a subcellar bar and taproom labeled "Ye Old Stanhope Arms-Free House...