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...proposed Larkin tower in New York is to be 1208 feet high. It will overtop the Woolworth building and the Eiffel tower, and it will seriously threaten the limits of human credibility. It is to be an office building, with the four top stories given over to sightseers; but from the architect's drawing there is to be no mother-of-pearl gilding such as makes the Singer building gaudy. It is to be strictly business...
...Burgess Book Jr., 37, son of a foresighted Canadian physician who amassed Detroit real estate and a fortune. He has built up whole streets at a time, including the tallest hotel in the world, the Book-Cadillac. The world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower 1000 Woolworth Bldg., N. Y. C 50 792 Metropolitan Life, N. Y. C 50 700 Singer Bldg., N. Y. C 41 612 Municipal Bldg., N. Y. C 24 580 Bankers Trust, (tallest bank) N. Y. C 39 539 Pure Oil Bldg., (formely "Jewelers Chicago Bldg.") Chicago 40 523 Straus Bldg...
...Woolworth's to Germany. Its chain stores in England now well established, the F. W. Woolworth Co. (5c & 10c) last week prepared for a similar chain in Germany...
Married. Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of Frank W. Woolworth, popular-price merchant; to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr.; in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan. The groom recently changed his faith to that of the bride...
...delighted fashion, as if he were watching the progress of a practical joke. The Eskimo paid no attention to Captain MacMillan. A big, blubber-bred man with a crouching sinewy figure, a face creased by the wind and reddened by the sun, he tilted an eye at the Woolworth Building. "Big house, by jingo," he said mildly...