Talk im not good at power point. Well, this is not the supreme city. Its not the book i originally set out to write. And the original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. But without trying to be too cute, i took too big of a bite out of the apple. And i discovered doing my Research Within the larger story i had intended to tell. Its an unfold story, actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. And that story is the rise of the sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. Which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skyscraper above 42nd street. And by the end of the decade, by the end of the 1920s, almost half of new york skyscrapers were in midtown. Its one of the great building booms not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of the world. This eruption, almost, that occurs in these years. And
These rights. [applause] when i say all americans, i mean all americans. [applause] our immediate past is to remove to remove the last remnants of the barrier, which span between the millions of our citizens and their birth rights. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color. [applause] join American History tv as we visit the u. S. Botanic garden at the foot of capitol hill. Executive director ari novi discusses the history of the oldest Botanic Garden in north america originally proposed by George Washington at a 1796 letter. Thats today at 6 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Eastern time on american artifacts here on cspan3s American History tv. Coming up next author and architectural historian Steven Hansen chronicles washington d. C. s most famous neighborhoods, Dupont Circle. How and why weelth couples moved into the area in the guilded age and the 20th century. Mr. Hansen is the author of the history of Dupont Circle, center of high
Street rethinking their expectations for the Big Government employment report out on friday. Businesses added just 189,000 jobs in march, says adp. Thats the first month of gains below 200,000 in more than a year and it was far short of the 225,000 that economists were looking for. And it wasnt just adps report that disappointed today. Manufacturing activity slowed for the fifth month in a row and Construction Spending slipped as well. And all of that weighed on stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 78 points to 17,698. Nasdaq dropped 20 and the s p 500 gave up 8 points. Todays reports add to a string of recent economic misses but will there be better days ahead . Our Steve Liesman has the answer. Reporter investors riding the market bull these days have been forced to hang on for dear life. As the economy and the market take them for a very bumpy ride. Freezing february temperatures in east have slowed Economic Growth and a strong dollar and weak overseas growth have flattened
Plummet plummeted. And the dollar turned around. Weak data out of the u. S. Earlier this morning. All kinds of moving pieces. One stock bucking the trend behind us at the New York Stock Exchange, go daddy. The stock prices last night above the expected range and traded for the first time today with a symbol gddy. The investors liking it as much as their racy commercials. Should investors go for go daddy even at these levels . You had a rather eventful morning. They took over the New York Stock Exchange. There was a huge crowd. You even had Danica Patrick doing pushups on the floor. Picture that. Doing pushups on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time we were talking to the ceo. I will bring you some of those comments. Well check out the post. It has managed to hold its gains, 30 gain. Walmart inserting itself into a political controversy asking the governor of arkansas to veto a religious freedom bill. The governor sending the bill back to be rewritten. Well get to
Has many on wall street and main street rethinking their expectations for the Big Government employment report out on friday. Businesses added just 189,000 jobs in march, says adp. Thats the first month of gains below 200,000 in more than a year and it was far short of the 225,000 that economists were looking for. And it wasnt just adps report that disappointed today. Manufacturing activity slowed for the fifth month in a row and Construction Spending slipped as well. And all of that weighed on stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 78 points to 17,698. Nasdaq dropped 20 and the s p 500 gave up 8 points. Todays reports add to a string of recent economic misses but will there be better days ahead . Our Steve Liesman has the answer. Reporter investors riding the market bull these days have been forced to hang on for dear life. As the economy and the market take them for a very bumpy ride. Freezing february temperatures in east have slowed Economic Growth and a strong dollar and we