Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...gate receipts (first 40% of gate goes to bondholders); 2) to lend the Fair the $1,250,000 already paid into the sinking fund for the bonds. Meanwhile, the Fair prepared to go to the banks for an additional $750,000 loan. By week's end not quite half (51% necessary) of the bondholders, who have received, besides interest, only one 5% payment on principal, had agreed to the plan...
...paid daily average) Grover Whalen will have about 24,000,000 admissions by the Fair's close next October 30-a little better than one-third his prediction. With luck, attendance might increase in the cooler autumn months, total 32,000,000 at season's end. Last March a Gallup poll said 13,000,000 people planned to attend the Fair, 19,000,000 hoped they could. Last week another poll showed that: 1) two-thirds of the planners had made 2.3 visits apiece to the Fair; 2) the remaining third were going this fall; 3) the hopers...
Next he made a pair of crutches from limbs of a nearby tree. In spite of pain and weakness he began hobbling along the tracks. What happened in the hours that followed no one knows. At the end of seven hours, a mile from the patch of weeds where he had left his amputated foot, he fell fainting before an astonished train crew...
...Because of severe winters there are more cases of tuberculosis in the North than in the South. Yet a higher proportion of Southerners than Northerners die from T.B. every year. Reason: the same harsh winds which often drive Northerners into sick beds also end by toughening them. Southerners living in a calm climate have no chance to develop their forces of resistance...