Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Express has done "easily half" the Fair business it had anticipated. Since the Fair opened, Baltimore & Ohio traffic has been double 1938; Pennsylvania Railroad up 20%; New York Central a meagre...
...Fair opened, Manhattan restaurant business took a nosedive, is now 15-20% under last year...
...July department store sales were up 2% (U. S.: 3%) over 1938 (a poor year). But smart Lord & Taylor President Walter Hoving reported a 47% increase the first week of August, attributed 75% of it to Fair visitors...
...Only about 3,000,000 out-of-town patrons have visited the Fair. There they stayed an average seven hours, spent an average $2.06 apiece ($1.44 plus admission. Coney Island average...
Unable to pull his top-heavy Fair out of the red this year, Grover Whalen is faced with the problem of running it a second year. But there he will tangle with the League of Nations. In 1928, under the League's friendly wing, 22 foreign nations formed the Bureau of International Exhibitions. Under its rule signatories cannot participate in any fair longer than six months. That would mean curtains for next year's World of Tomorrow, because, if the nations which erected buildings tear them down, there will be ugly gaps in the Fair's landscape...