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...Woolworth's C. W. Deyo...
...streets darker & darker, New York traffic denser & denser, when the city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must "step back" as they rose. Architects were horrified at such restrictions on "individual initiative." But Visualizer Ferriss, who got his early architectural experience sketching full-size details for the Woolworth Building, evolved a basic skyscraper form which became the pattern for such buildings as the Shelton Hotel, one of the first important stepped-back skyscrapers, and later for much of the New York skyline. While adopting the stepped-back skyscraper form, New York did not observe Ferriss' plea that...
...lack of shipping space, F.W. Woolworth has been unable to make any deliveries to its Cuban stores for threee months...
...merely for ?1 did Australia's uneasy conservative coalition lose power. A. W. Coles, whose vote helped to defeat it, is one of Australia's leading capitalists. Director of a string of "half-crown" stores, he is sometimes called Australia's Woolworth. He has been sharply criticized by Labor and the trade unions many times. But both he and Independent Wilson agree with Labor that the war should be financed with Commonwealth bank credits instead of through the higher-interest-bearing plan proposed by onetime Accountant Fadden (TIME, Sept...
...Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...