five facts about the empire state building by carson plank and matty fox

https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-surprising-facts-about-the-empire-state-building

“On May 1, 1931, the Empire State Building was dedicated during a ceremony led by President Herbert Hoover, who symbolically pressed a button in Washington at the same time the skyscraper’s lights were turned on at 350 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The 1,250-foot, 102-story Art Deco wonder was the world’s tallest building at the time of its completion, and it has since been featured in countless films, photographs and artworks. Check out 10 little-known facts about one of the United States’ most iconic skyscrapers.”

 

“In the late-1920s, as New York’s economy boomed like never before, builders were in a mad dash to erect the world’s largest skyscraper. The main competition was between 40 Wall Street’s Bank of Manhattan building and the Chrysler Building, an elaborate Art Deco structure conceived by car mogul Walter Chrysler as a “monument to me.” Both towers tried to best each other by adding more floors to their design, and the race really heated up in August 1929, when General Motors executive John J. Raskob and former New York Governor Al Smith announced plans for the Empire State Building.”

 

“When he drew up its plans in 1929, architect William Lamb of the firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon is said to have modeled the Empire State Building after Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s Reynolds Building—which he had previously designed—and Carew Tower in Cincinnati. The two earlier Art Deco buildings are now often cited as the Empire State’s architectural ancestors. On the Reynolds Building’s 50th anniversary in 1979, the Empire State Building’s general manager even sent a card that read, “Happy Anniversary, Dad.”

“Despite the colossal size of the project, the design, planning and construction of the Empire State Building took just 20 months from start to finish. After demolishing the Waldorf-Astoria hotel—the plot’s previous occupant—contractors Starrett Brothers and Eken used an assembly line process to erect the new skyscraper in a brisk 410 days. Using as many as 3,400 men each day, they assembled its skeleton at a record pace of four and a half stories per week—so fast that the first 30 stories were completed before certain details of the ground floor were finalized. The Empire State Building was eventually finished ahead of schedule and under budget, but it also came with a human cost: at least five workers were killed during the construction process.”

 

“By far the most unusual aspect of the Empire State Building’s design concerned its 200-foot tower. Convinced that transatlantic airship travel was the wave of the future, the building’s owners originally constructed the mast as a docking port for lighter-than-air dirigibles. The harebrained scheme called for the airships to maneuver alongside the building and tether themselves to a winching apparatus. Passengers would then exit via an open-air gangplank, check in at a customs office and make their way to the streets of Manhattan in a mere seven minutes. Despite early enthusiasm for the project, the high winds near the building’s rooftop proved all but impossible for pilots to negotiate. The closest thing to a “landing” came in September 1931, when a small dirigible tethered itself to the spire for a few minutes. Two weeks later, a Goodyear blimp dropped a stack of newspapers on the roof a part of a publicity stunt, but the airship plan was abandoned shortly thereafter.”

dear Mr. McCaskey

Dear Mr. McCaskey,
We need a garden because it could teach science, it would make our property look beautiful, and it could help students with math.
We could use a garden to study when flowers bloom and how much water they need. We could also do science experiments in the garden.
A garden would look pretty around the school. It would make more students want to come here.
Students could calculate the area and perimeter of the garden. We could measure how tall the plants are, and find the width.
We should have a garden because it would help studnets learn and it would look nice.

ECONOMICS

I am going to make a machine that can make any doller bill,any credit card and any gift card you wunt

Native Americans

I was a little boy and i love to build houses and i love to fish.My tribe is called pipaluk  

Tribe moves around a lot. Most of my friends like to fish . me and my friends are good at starting fires.me and my friends love to go into battle because we love to shooting bows.But me and my friends hate when we have to move with the tribe.But the onle thing that we like about moveing is that we get to build more houses because we love to build houses. Today I am building a house. My friends and I gathered wood and bark and mud. We needed mud to pack down the wooden bark. We used a rock to smash the mud against the bark. By the time the sun was directly overhead, our house was half built. Our dads told us we could go fishing and catch something to eat. So we enjoyed our afternoon of fishing and when it was dark we went to bed.    

The Titanic

THE TITANIC WAS A BRITISH PASSENGER LINER THAT SANK IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN IT LEFT APRIL 10 1912 IT SANK IN APRIL 15 1912.

THE TITANIC WAS AS BIG AS THREE FOOTBALL FIELD AND WAS AS TALL AS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.

AND THE TICKET FOR SELLING AT A$1.4 MILLION DOLLARS.

AND THEY ATE STUFF LIKE FISH AND

THEY ATE TURKEY THEY ATE DEER.

 

THE TITANIC CARRIED ENOUGH LIFEBOATS FOR 1,178 PEOPLE. ALTHOUGH THE TITANIC AR SAFETY FEATURES.THERE WAR 700 SURVIVOR AND 1,050 DIED.THE TITANIC WAS 52,380 TONS.

EDWARD SMITH THE CAPTAIN WENT DOWN WITH THE DISASTER.  

 

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