31.   Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, the new tower will be the latest element of a building boom that has swept through Times Square.

32.   Despite hefty building fees collected by the government during this building boom, many regulators appear to be understaffed, including city inspection departments.

33.   Dance floors became smaller as real estate prices rose during the postwar building boom, so swing dancers learned to move within a narrow rectangle.

34.   During the building boom, many markets quickly became saturated, prompting several states to require certificates of need before a home could be built.

35.   During the postwar building boom, builders used more precut and assembled units to construct houses.

36.   Finance companies that helped fuel a building boom early this decade that has collapsed the past few years have caused the entire financial system to teeter.

37.   Garden City, Kan., missed out on the suburban building boom of the postwar years.

38.   Graphic showing how the building boom is changing real estate proces in Miami is being sent to NYT graphics clients.

39.   He put up building frames in Kansas and then moved on to Tennessee at the height of the building boom.

40.   However chaotic, the building boom is tangible evidence that there is money here, and at least some faith in the future.