Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the new type of public architecture which Sullivan had made powerful was sidetracked by the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Eastern conservatives turned the fair into a magnificent tour de force of neoclassic buildings, and for a quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture...
...were kept off the ground by Depression. Wright's desert camp of canvas and boxwood, built by his apprentices in 1929, stands as one of his most brilliant pieces of geometrical design. Still ignored by conventional architects, never invited to take part in the Chicago World's Fair, whose blatant "modernism" was an unconscious tribute to his pioneer work, Wright .nevertheless found clients who allowed his designs to materialize...
Thus debonair, voluble Grover Whalen, Manhattan's perennial greeter and president of the Fair, last year sold New York...
Governor Herbert H. Lehman the idea of stamping along the bottom of all 1938 automobile license plates the phrase NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939. Other States had done the same sort of thing. VACATIONLAND was once stamped on Maine's plates. South Carolina motorists advertised THE IODINE PRODUCTS STATE. Californians carried the talisman THE GOLDEN STATE. In the New York Legislature the necessary bill was unanimously passed and "World's Fair'' plates were issued. But for a fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked...
...York World's Fair will produce the greatest boom in the history of the State. . . . Surely every automobile owner and driver in the State of New York should welcome the opportunity to act as an ambassador of good-will for the Empire State...