Thoughts after a week selling Europe to Yanks

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Doug Henwood wrote:

> Isn't there also a world's tallest building indicator? Malaysia 
> undertook to build the world champ just before the region went into 
> crisis, and I just read that someone in Chicago is proposing to build 
> the world's tallest. But I recall a longer history of this sort of 
> thing than just a couple of datapoints.

There was the "tallest building west of the Mississippi," the Foshay
Tower, constructed in 1929 with John Philip Sousa conducting a march
commissioned by speculator Wilbur Foshay for the opening spectacle.
Foshay went belly-up immediately thereafter.

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