Word: skyscraperism
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Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's swashbuckling little painter of lopsided Americana, arrived in Manhattan. Starting with Greenwich Village, he planned to paint outsize canvases of the skyscraper metropolis.
For five and a half days-a full working week-hundreds of thousands of Manhattan's skyscraper office workers were grounded. In 2,100 buildings, 16,600 elevator operators and service employes were out on strike.
Pic's elaborate face-lifting is typical of the way oldtime Street & Smith keeps itself young. In fact, the old Street & Smith has been hardly recognizable since 1938, when white-haired, supercharged Allen L. Grammer moved in as president. He had spent more than 20 years as a kind...
Dr. Fosdick held his first service at the skyscraper-Gothic Riverside Church on Oct. 5, 1930. It had cost some $5,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted...
In the formation of combat-bound Flying Fortresses, over northwest Europe at 13,500 feet, there was only a moment of confusion. But it was enough. There was a collision, and one of the B-17s, with its tail cut off, spilled crazily forward. The heavy forepart plunged with its...