Word: skyscraperism
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Never before have U.S. citizens witnessed so many familiar American landmarks and trademarks passing into foreign hands. Japanese investors last December bought the Exxon headquarters building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for $610 million, the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan skyscraper. The British, who burned Washington in 1814...
Reeling from bad loans and famished for new capital, Unitedbank was a prime candidate for closure. Still, when an army of FDIC liquidators marched without warning into the bank's headquarters in a downtown skyscraper, the staff of 100 were traumatized. Secretaries wept as the intruders posted notices on the...
A Chicago skyscraper rises on stage right, with the Chrysler Building on stage left. The main set, a luxury sleeping car on the Chicago-New York run, circa 1930, comes together in between.
A little too wonderful, perhaps. In a series of vignettes organized by topic ("On Style," "On System," "On Race," etc.), Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway...
BOSTON -- The landmark Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square won a $4.1 million judgment yesterday against its neighbor, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., in a lawsuit claiming John Hancock damaged the church while digging the foundation for its skyscraper in 1968.