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Building skyscrapers is the nearest peace-time equivalent of war. -- Col. William A Starrett, Skyscrapers and the Men who Build Them ,1928 | |||||||||||
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"The great obstacle to be surmounted in the construction itself is the lack of space for storage of materials. (Because there is no room for) sheds full of steel, stone, brick, tile, cement, plaster, wire, wood, etc. . . the building must be built from trucks. But since the streets surrounding the site are the busiest streets of a great city, the trucks cannot stand. They must unload and move. Which is to say that the materials they unload must, at least during the structural stages, be built at once into the building. . . "
-- Fortune July 1930
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