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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. last week announced that it had constructed, and would exhibit at the New York World's Fair, a new electromechanical man. His name: Elektro. In either profile or full-face he looks not unlike Actor John Barrymore, and with a total of 26 tricks in his repertoire, he is probably the most talented robot ever built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...exhumed in Egypt some time ago and now belongs to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Recently the General Electric X-Ray Corp. arranged to borrow him so that he could be fluoroscoped full length for the edification of visitors to the New York World's Fair. X-rays will penetrate the wrappings and dried flesh, pass on to create an image on a fluorescent screen, revealing to visitors the mummy's skeletal arrangement. General Electric X-Ray Corp. believes Harwa to be the first adult human body ever fluoroscoped in toto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mummies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Little Giant's files-the one on Gambling-has been particularly crammed. What made Reformer Howard broody was the fact that a lot of this gambling was under church auspices. For the last three years, U. S. churches have raised thousands of dollars by the old-time country fair and carnival game, Bingo (or Beano, or Keno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reformer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held by its nationals, use them as it saw fit. The Philadelphian discussed with Sir Horace the advantage of having them taken over at a "fair price" by some such U. S. agency as RFC, left the matter there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Prewar Suggestion | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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