Careful, detailed planning and much paperwork enabled the Empire State Building to be put up in record time. A progress chart and a printed timetable were issued daily. These specified everything to be done that day, identifying each truck that would drive right in onto the first floor, what it would be delivering, and who was responsible to receive it and to use the materials it carried. Each steel piece was numbered to see that it went to the proper derrick and to indicate its proper place in the building. —The Building of Manhattan, Donald A. Mackay. Write a paraphrase of the passage.

Sample response: Thinking ahead allowed builders to construct the Empire State Building very quickly. Every day, workers were given instructions that showed what had to be done and where each delivery needed to go. Individual materials were marked to make sure they went to the right place in the building.

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Thinking ahead allowed builders to construct the Empire State Building very quickly. Every day, workers were given instructions that showed what had to be done and where each delivery needed to go. Individual materials were marked to make sure they went to the right place in the building.

The Empire State Building was carefully planned to be put up in record time. Daily progress charts were passed out with a printed timetable. The charts specified what would happen on that day, along with identifying each truck that would drive in to deliver materials. The steel pieces were numbered to put it in the proper place.

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