Show Through the manipulation of the money interests of the United States nearly every person has to pay tribute to the skyscrapers of lower New where the business interests of people centers in enormous fireproof buildings that have most of them within the to accommodate the rapidly increasing de-mauds for office room in the new world are now being spent on buildings from 12 to 48 stories high that are under Here are the headquarters or agencies of worth of of manufacturing concerns with a capital of of business enterprises of all sorts that represent investments aggregating The city's banks and trust companies in 1907 had resources totaling and here centered the business of fire insurance companies with and life insurance corporations with The post offices handle pieces of mail a minute and the city spends a day on worth of goods are manufactured in the city every working day and the imports amount to nearly a There are about telephone conversations every minute and fares a minute are paid to the traction companies during the rush |