Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tour, scheduled to begin on Oct. 22, or he might simply have been reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens...
...case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope the car was bringing him back again through the park, stopping at the door of the house he has made his ultima thule. There had been no fever, no aftermath. At the Chalet de Riond...
...buildings must be just 63 stories high. No building should be constructed that high in St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or lesser communities, because land values there are too low to warrant the expense. Their land is comparatively cheap because they have no need for the business congestion which would fill tall structures with occupants...
...steel colleagues told him he could run his building as high as he pleased. Their structural steel could stand any strain. The elevator men told him, however, not to go above 150 stories (2,000 feet high), because to travel higher would require too heavy elevator cables and because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew...
...full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...