> 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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