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IPSecure
08-13-2009, 06:49 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Builders of the tallest office tower under construction at ground zero have set a 70-ton piece of steel into place - the largest column installed yet at the building.

Each steel column - made at a factory in Luxembourg - is about 60 feet long. The columns at the bottom of the tower's foundation are about 35 feet long.

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Why?

TonySutton
08-13-2009, 06:53 AM
Maybe they offered the highest quality at an affordable price.

coyote_sprit
08-13-2009, 06:59 AM
Freedom tower would imply a free market?

acptulsa
08-13-2009, 07:00 AM
What--did you think we still had a steel industry? Last I heard of our steel industry, Pittsburg was trying to 'gentrify' it with hardwood floors, stainless appliances and miniblinds...