Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make nearly 75% of the floor space available for occupancy (in most tower buildings 52% is considered standard), he has divided the towers into three zones, separated at the 41st and 74th floors by "sky lobbies." A visitor who wants, for example, to go to the 90th floor takes an express elevator at a speed of more than 1,700 ft. per minute to the 74th floor sky lobby and transfers to a local that originates there. Each zone has banks of local elevators terminating at different levels; in this way the floor space directly above the truncated shafts...
...Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from the center of a building going up-and climbs along with the superstructure...
...main advantages to builders go far beyond price. As a building rises, the tower crane hoists itself from floor to floor by means of built-in hydraulic jacks. It supports itself on the building's side or on a tower that runs up inside what will later become an elevator shaft. Its counterbalanced boom can deftly pinpoint a load anywhere on the construction floor, whereas crawlers, operating from street level, can only inch a load to the edge of the floor. And the tower's heights are unlimited, while the crawler can rise no higher than 35 stories...
...Bigger Liebherr, with crane sales of $20 million, turns out 2,000 cranes annually, has plants in Austria, France, Ireland and South Africa in addition to seven in Germany. Both companies expect business to rise handsomely as builders around the world discover the benefits of tower cranes. "The sky's the limit," says Lindenkranar President Elis Linden, discussing the height at which his products can work-but also describing their potentialities...
...Texas as a whole is just as varied in its politics as it is in its natural resources. It has one of the nation's most conservative Senators in Republican John Tower. Dallas Republican Congressman Bruce Alger is well to the right of Barry Goldwater. Democrats normally dominate state politics, but they themselves are torn between "liberals" (who nonetheless supported Republican Tower instead of a Democratic nominee from the rival faction) and "conservatives" like Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, who are not conservative...