Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem has been utilized by Eliot House to a remarkable degree of efficiency and popularity. This consists in a personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House committee is far wider and the general result in satisfaction...
...heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles away. By night the glare of their floodlights keeps housewives awake in neighboring suburbs. Before next...
...York World's Fair will open April 30, 1939, the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration (in Manhattan) as first President of the U. S. The anniversary is more a coincidence than an excuse and the word "sesquicentennial," of unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens...
...financing of this enterprise was a three-cornered affair. The State Legislature authorized the City of New York to issue $7,000,000 worth of stock for acquisition of needed land, which will be developed by the Park Department after the Fair. From the State the Fair promoters are asking in all more than $4,000,000. Last spring when the bills for the first appropriation of $2,130,000 seemed to be lagging at Albany, Mr. McAneny resigned as president of the World's Fair Corporation, was succeeded by orchidaceous but politically shrewd Grover Whalen. Mr. Whalen went...
...York City's biggest show was announced by Finance Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson, public-spirited president of Manufacturers Trust Co. To provide for planning and construction during the next two years, an issue of $27,829,000 in debentures will be offered by the World's Fair Corporation to businessmen-investors. To act as chief salesman for this offering Mr. Gibson named Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange...