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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen All | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...believe these stories about hamburgers selling for a dollar and a half. They cost a dime and they're not transparent or synthetic. . . . We have put a soul into this Fair. . . . It is the last word in the application of the genius of man. . . . Our Fair will not be remembered for any hootchy-kootchy dance-and a fan means nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...several respects New York's Fair outstrips Chicago's: its World of Tomorrow cost more than thrice Chicago's $47,000,000 Century of Progress, is twice its size, and at the end of its first year will probably have a deficit three times as big as Chicago's $5,000,000. (The Century of Progress closed its second year in the black.) Fond of booming, expansive ciphers, honey-tongued Grover Whalen prophesied for his Tomorrow 60,000,000 customers, when he unveiled his big show last April 30. Today the books of the Fair give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...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 another $2,000,000. To that unlooked-for expense was added another: $1,588,000 spent to build a Hall of Nations (for foreign participants), which Congress refused to pay for, after indicating that it would foot the bill. (But the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...foreign nations who put up their own pavilions* will return next year (if Whalen can raise the money) remains to be seen. At present they are angry because: 1) they have spent $55,000,000 to date; 2) they have exceeded their budgets; 3) overtime payments to labor cost them $5,000,000 they hadn't figured on (the Fair's figure: $1,000,000); 4) trucking charges have been exorbitant; 5) Grover Whalen and Washington have ignored their protests (they were warned in advance that they would have to employ U. S. labor, that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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