Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson, Inc., Esso Standard Oil Co. The plans of Manhattan Architects Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz (whose firm helped design Rockefeller Center, the United Nations building and many of the new Pittsburgh skyscrapers) call for a massive rectangular tower rising from two setbacks at the third and eighth floors, with the main entrance through a promenade with gardens and fountain pools...
RICHARD THE THIRD, by Paul Murray Kendall. A U.S. historian's big, balanced biography of "Richard Crookback" that pleased even Britain's reviewers. Richard may or may not have murdered the princes in the tower, but this book accords him kingly virtues which readers of history have seldom suspected...
...bulk of the SINS equipment is housed in a 67-ton, temperature-controlled navigational tower that looms just forward of the superstructure in the most rigid part of the ship. To protect the instruments from as much motion as possible, the Compass Island is equipped with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...
Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
...Dresser had entered the building field with Ideco, which built the nation's tallest man-made structure, a 1,572-ft. TV tower in Oklahoma City. In quick succession, Dresser took on Roots-Connersville's rotary positive blowers, and Security Engineering's rock bits and reamers. By 1948 Dresser had taken seven separate companies under its wing, increased its net sales to $108,600,000. Said Mallon: "When we buy a company, we have to consider if the company would be better off in the Dresser family. Would Dresser itself be better, not just bigger, for having...