Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign pavilions now stand...
...home front in Flushing, L. I, heavy-handed Harvey Dow Gibson (Fair board chairman & potent Manufacturers Trust Co. president) wooed U. S. exhibitors. To entice them in again next year...
...slashed rentals almost 50% ($14 to $7.50 a sq. ft.) in Fair-owned buildings; 2) cut ground rentals 10% for those who had built their own buildings; 3) offered a 50% rent cut to all States exhibiting; 4) advertised sites in the Fair's Town of Tomorrow at a 30% markdown; 5) abolished all charges for removing garbage...
First to snap up the bargain rates for Fair-owned buildings was big Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Firestone, Carrier Corp. also signed up. By week's end Florida was the only State to renew her contract; Ohio the only one (of 33) to say she wouldn...
...Banker Gibson this was such good news that he loosed the floodgates. He ruled that for the remainder of the 1939 Fair (except weekends & holidays) babies in arms or in carriages would be admitted without paying 25? admission. ("Of course," one of Banker Gibson's assistants hastily added, "if the child has a beard, I think we can ask payment...