Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World's Fair...
...Reader Robert Douglas, worried about comfort stations (TIME, Aug. 29), at "the 1939 World's Fair," a slap on the wrist from the West. By the 1939 World's Fair did he mean the San Francisco Fair or the New York Fair? (TIME, in parentheses, assumes he meant the latter...
Whichever he meant, San Francisco Bay people wish it known that "the 1939 World's Fair" is ambiguous, and, further, that the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair will have plenty of free toilets. There also will be pay toilets enough for the fastidious...
...Board of Management of the western World's Fair long ago determined that there would be no T.T. (Toilet Trouble) at this Exposition. No concessionaires will be in the comfort station business to the discomfort of the visitors...
What part of Mayor LaGuardia's bustling salesmanship Mayor Ellenstein considered a stratagem he did not say, but anyone could guess. Less than two miles from North Beach stand the spindling 700-foot Trylon and the great round Perisphere of the New York World's Fair 1939. A thick slice of premium revenue will undoubtedly go to the transportation system that can pick up the sightseer at his home airport and deposit him in the shadow of the World's Fair's Big Apple...