Word: skyscraperism
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But the growing magnificence of the money-changers has by no means smothered religion in the Wall Street district. Only last week a new orthodox Jewish synagog opened its doors there for the first time. The synagog is merely an office building room given by Benjamin E. Greenspan, a lawyer...
Last week came announcement of the long-rumored merger of Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce (TIME, Feb. 11). Probably a skyscraper will soon be erected on the joint site. With Guaranty Trust already fourth largest and National Bank of Commerce ninth largest among U. S. banks, the merger...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on...
In autumn came the news that Walter P. Chrysler was going to build the world's tallest skyscraper, a 68-story colossus towering more than 800 feet above Lexington Ave. and 42nd St., Manhattan.
The doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, now became fabulous. People said that this torpedo-headed dynamo from Detroit with the smile like Walter Hagen's and the sensitive sophistication in oriental rugs, was building up a facsimile and four-square competitor of mighty General Motors Corp. and...