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...adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period did the five-day week enter into calculations on how long a job would take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Five-Day Week | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Francis Ouimet, wife of the one-time (1913) U. S. open and (1914) amateur golf champion, was hospitalized last week in Arlington, Mass. Cause: an auto-mobile-trolley crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Trolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, one O. J. Coats was arrested last week on the charge that he did steal a trolley car from a local yard, did go on a long Saturday-night joy ride to West View Park, clanging the gong merrily, all alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps in New Jersey homes, savory roasts in New Jersey gas-stoves, whirring wheels in New Jersey factories. It would also suggest millions of trolley rides and bus rides on Public Service Corp. controlled lines. For Public Service Corp. power serves 82% of New Jersey's 3,821,000 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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