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First Line: Toward the end of 1911 a group of yankee financiers
Last Line: City, that was also looking for a name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; City Planning; Labor Unions; Machinery And Machinists; Steel


Toward the end of 1911 a group of Yankee financiers decided to found a city in
the far west, at the foot of the Rockies
Not a month had gone by when the new city still without a single house was bound
by three lines in the iron network of the Union
Laborers poured in from all parts
By the second month three churches were erected and five theatres were playing
to full houses
Around a square where a few fine trees were left a forest of metal girders
glistens day and night to the tune of hammers
Derricks
The puffing of machines
Steel skeletons of thirty-story buildings began to take position
Partitions of brick or mere aluminum slabs stuffed the interstices of the iron
frame
In a few hours entire buildings were poured of concrete by the Edison process
Through some sort of superstition they didn't know what to call the city and a
contest was opened with a lottery prizes offered by the biggest paper in the
city, that was also looking for a name.





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