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...become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them as a part of a vertical motif of alternating white and reddish stripes. His blue-green McGraw-Hill Building was almost all window. With Harvey Wiley Corbett and Benjamin Wistar Morris he was an architect for Rockefeller Center. He rejoiced that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years because it gave architects "a chance to experiment...
...original order for a rate reduction was entered in 1923, but Illinois Bell promptly obtained an injunction. The case was not brought to trial until 1927. The City of Chicago in behalf of subscribers retained a bright young lawyer named Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...
Down thumped the lid of the coffin. The cortége set out for Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery where President Benjamin Harrison and three Vice Presidents rest in peace...
BRAIN GUY-Benjamin Appel-Knopf...
...protecting rural homes and buildings, Mr. McEachron declares a good lightning rod is effective 99 times in 100. In use since Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning rods and the glib agents who sold them were long in disfavor with farmers because so many rod-equipped structures were struck by bolts and burned. But this was found due in almost every case to faulty installation. Nine-tenths of the deaths caused by lightning in the U. S. (some 50 per year) occur in the country. Cities are much safer because big buildings, with steel frames acting as lightning rods...