Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Samuel Paley has kept step with the jazz age. Long ago he set himself up in the world like a Fitzgerald hero. Two years ago he moved into a three-story penthouse on svelte Park Avenue, from which he could look down on a building called the Ritz Tower. The apartment was decorated by Theatrical Designer Lee Simonson. It had a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties, a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase. His modernistic bedroom held a big bed equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic lights, music from one of his eight...
...limestone. More than 50% of the limestone comes from the great quarries of Indiana Limestone Co. Indiana limestone went into Washington's new Department of Commerce Building, New York's Empire State Building and Grand Central Terminal. Chicago's Tribune Tower. Detroit's General Motors Building. Only two months ago the company received the largest order in its history-3,200 cars for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (Radio City). The company has developed a long list of by-products including quick lime, pulverized limestone for fertilizer, fluxing stone for blast furnaces, a powder for tennis...
...contrast to the red, green, and blue spires which now dominate the Cambridge sky-line, the new tower on the Adams House unit rising where Russell Hall stood, will be gilded, it was announced yesterday by J. P. Baxter, associate professor of History, and Master of Adams House...
Unless the weather man forgets himself, Hanover, come Saturday, will find itself steeped in the traditional millpond atmosphere of late winter. Under such conditions, it is neither invigorating nor enjoyable to tramp through College Park or climb the Tower. The wonder of Baker, Sanborn and Carpenter lose their appeal after the first hour or so and the question arises of where to go and what to do. For the fraternity man the solution is simple--there is always the house and the radio. But for the house and the radio. But for the freshman who has contributed his check...
Squatting on top of a watch tower, U. S. Minister to China Nelson T. Johnson watched the terrific show. In London the Government of His Majesty King George announced that plans to evacuate every British subject from Shanghai's International Settlement were ready. A British ship loaded with extra munitions steamed Chinaward. In swank Shanghai hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow...