Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their first appearance at Vienna's International Trade Fair last week, U.S. manufacturers waltzed off with the show...
...Italy. The U.S. debut on the Danube followed a similar success a fortnight ago in Stockholm. There, the prize U.S. attraction was a handsomely furnished, California-style model home, filled with 370 appliances. Last week Yankee salesmanship was also proving just as effective at Djakarta's Indonesian International Fair. More than 30,000 visitors a day poured through the gates to see the first TV show ever broadcast in Indonesia...
From Indonesia to Italy this month, the U.S. will show its wares and way of life in seven fairs, in accordance with a program blueprinted a year ago by President Eisenhower. Alarmed that Russia had peddled its goods at 133 fairs in four years, while U.S. exhibitors stayed home, the President obtained a $5,000,000 grant last year from Congress to put the U.S. on the world fair circuit. The aim: build world trade and good will. In its first year, the program did both: more than 12,000,000 visitors in 15 countries gained an insight into...
Reaction abroad is summed up in a cable sent Fair Director Roy F. Williams from the Salonika Fair in Greece this month: "Attendance 52,000 our exhibit. Total fair attendance 52,000." In the program's second year, with more exhibits than ever and bookings at 18 fairs, Showman Williams predicts: "We'll double last year's attendance or bust...
...Always Fair Weather. A sharp little musical that needles TV-without trying, of course, to burst the Electronic Bubble; with Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd (TIME, Sept...