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...along this country has held the heavyweight championship in office buildings. Manhattan at first took the lead with the historic Mills building (soon to be torn down) and kept it with the subsequent erection of other skyscrapers, including the Woolworth and Equitable Buildings. The latter is at present Manhattan's most spacious office structure. It contains 1,236,000 square feet of office space...
This picture showed the vertical city in the very moment of its demolition by the earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen...
...grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing the Woolworth Tower and a mystical little joke making faces from a subway turnstile. A great poet and a great personality. May he stay long and return often...
Kresge and Woolworth...
...prosperity of chain stores continues to be the admiration and despair of most other lines of trade and industry. For the calendar year of 1924, the F.W. Woolworth Co. showed net, after depreciation and taxes of $20, 669,397, $7.95 on each of its present 2,600,000 common shares, or $31.80 on its 650,000 shares of old stock, upon which $31.84 was earned in 1923. Woolworth has assets totaling $92,422,858, compared with...