Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, Allison had its newest secret, the world's most powerful aircraft engine, on display in G. M.'s Building on New York's World's Fair grounds for all to see. Because it was displayed as casually as Poe's purloined letter, few visitors paid any attention...
...View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...
...wrong on one point: one of the six catalogues (Oriental) has precisely the kind of explanatory material he suggested. In his other observations, many a Joe Bloake agreed that he was right as rain. Next day, however, by his own request, Guard Seymour was transferred to duty on a Fair parking...
...Metropolitan's own trap for visitors to the New York World's Fair, the exhibition will stay open until October 29. Notable U. S. paintings which many a U. S. citizen will see for the first time...
Motors were the quarter's most dramatic performers. Chrysler doubled sales, General Motors spurted 47%, and, with this improvement as a lever, both sextupled profits over 1938. Both companies nowadays need only a few months of fair business in any year to roll up what most of the U. S. regards as a boom year's profits. With increased volume G. M.'s quarter's earnings ($53,178.000) amounted to 14.4% of sales, compared to 3.3% a year ago. This was a clue to other earnings, for when G. M. earns only 3.3% on sales...