Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska is "perhaps the last country in the world where a hermit can build a cabin and never see a tax collector...
...part of this sorry fiscal plight Fair officials blame labor. They made a deal with A. F. of L.'s New York Building & Construction Trades Council to employ only union labor. The contract called for no work stoppage because of jurisdictional disputes between local unions. But work did stop while unions haggled over which should pull what cable, etc. Construction was slowed up and in the closing rush to complete the Fair on schedule, overtime charges ate into the budget. World's Fair officials maintain labor disputes raised Fair costs about $2,000,000, cost exhibitors and concessionaires...
Like many another treaty, this one can be stretched. It was stretched when many signatories put up their own buildings in defiance of the Bureau's designation of the New York World's Fair as a Category 2 fair (meaning it must build pavilions for foreign exhibitors who are supposed to build them themselves only at Category 1 fairs...
...expenses as much as $80,000 a week. Although the Fair takes a cut ranging from 8% to 25% of gross receipts from amusement concessions, under Rose's contract his payments did not begin until he had recouped $160,000 he spent to roof the Marine Amphitheatre and build a swimming pool (his total Aquacade investment...
...this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...