Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Red or Black. In round numbers the Golden Gate Exposition's figures through July 31 showed:
Turning Point. This triumph was not the only corner which the Exposition had turned. By last week it had collected over 7,000,000 paid admissions. This week the Exposition releases for the first time figures on its financial condition.
The new director shook up the management. In the Fair's outdoor plaza, Temple Compound, Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman, whose brass band had been playing classical music to crowds of around 1,500 a day, was replaced by swing band leaders, notably Benny Goodman whose hot band played to...
For the Golden Gate Exposition was not set up like New York's World of Tomorrow. The New York Fair burdened itself with $26,995,000 worth of bonds which were supposedly to be paid off, and although it has operating profits of $4,105,000, it has still...
The Golden Gate Exposition instead of selling bonds collected $6,000,000 in "contributions" and the contributors have only an equity in any possible net profits. So the Exposition had as liabilities only its $4,900,000 of bank loans, debts to contractors etc., of which $686,000 has been...