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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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"It is one thing for the architect and the structural engineer and the fabricator's draftsmen to design the steel members of a great building so they will fit precisely into their slots in the actual frame. And it is another thing to put them there. Excellent administration and skillful planning and constant supervision will roll truck No. 70 down Wall Street with thirty tons of columns at the precise moment that the fall line of derrick No. 5 on the twenty-fifth floor gropes down to street level for another load."
-- Fortune October 1930
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