Construction Contract for U.N. Secretariat Building Signed

The United Nations awarded to the firms of Fuller, Turner, Walsh and Slattery, Inc. the contract for the construction of the 39-story Secretariat building the first of three main units to be built on the site of the permanent U.N. Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York. The contract, amounting to $23,809,573. is the largest financial obligation that the U.N. has ever undertaken.
Secretary-General Trygve Lie, who signed the contract on behalf of the United Nations, shakes hands with Mr. Lou R. Crandall, left, who signed on behalf of the four building firms which have combined their resources to form a single corporation for the UN project.