Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such people may be tempted to buy a new car when they see the 1933 automobile shows, led off as usual by the New York Automobile Show last week. On exhibit were 300 models representing 29 makes of cars. Some of the usual element of surprise was missing because many manufacturers, sales-hungry " (and perhaps wiser than before) had already revealed their 1933 wares. But even jaded engineers and salesmen found much to get excited about. And never before in its 33 years has the Show been such a show in the showman's sense...
...steerers" waited to nab visitors and whisk them off to certain exhibits. But manufacturers went further than ever before to rivet attention on their booths. Worthy of a Roxy was the Chrysler exhibit: 35 salesmen and seven girls dressed in creamy flannels; rug of the same color and all the cars shaded to match; a huge merry-go-round said to have cost $20.000 displaying Chrysler parts and a chassis, presided over by a Sousa-like gentleman with a wand...
...between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime practical fishman. Twelve years ago he decided that if Seattle could not afford an aquarium for exhibiting live fishes, it should at least have a place to show frozen ones. There was space in the cold storage rooms of Seattle's Spokane Street Dock. The Port Commission did not object. George Yaeger now has 142 specimens in his collection. When he gets...
Some of the most impressive settings in the exhibit are the work of Jo Mielziner, who has done a good number of the settings for the Theatre Guild. His series of sketches for the "Red General" a play concerning the Russian Revolution, have a keen sense of theatricality and unusual atmospheric effects. It is interesting to note that he is now at work on settings for "The Emperor Jones" of Eugene O'Neill, which is to be produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company this winter. The sketch for the Throne Room scene from this play is included in the exhibition...