Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These typify the way industry fell for Whalen sales talk. Typical of the gamble exhibitors are taking, General Motors reputedly put $5,000,000 into its building. Since G. M. will sell nothing on the premises, it is investing only in advertising and goodwill. Whether this huge expenditure (plus the cost of operating the exhibit) will pan out is General Motors' worry. Grover Whalen sold it to them. The same may be said for many another individual display. Several industries, such as railroads, glass,* aviation, utilities and petroleum, recognizing the fact, got together on cooperative exhibits where the heavy...
...with trucks snorting up to every building and 25,000 workers adding final touches, while a flood of concessionaires including some Seminole Indians stood around ogling (see cut, p. 72). President Whalen boasts, however, that opening day will find the fair about 99% completed. Farthest from completion is the huge amusement section, but even there some 65 separate diversions are ready. One thing World's Fair veterans may find lacking is sex. Despite announced appearances of such numbers as Delia ("Rose Dance") Carroll, who once lifted Adolf Hitler's brows several pegs, Grover Whalen last week insisted that...
...summer nights in St. Louis, huge crowds-as many as 10,000-go to hear outdoor performances of light operas (Naughty Marietta, Show Boat, etc.) in Forest Park. The St. Louis Municipal Opera is the most successful permanent light-opera company in the U. S. But when opera goes grand it has hard going in St. Louis...
...clad in gleaming aluminum. He is operated by 48 electrical relays (circuits actuated by current variations in other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier...
...planetarium picture of stars in the night sky is breathtakingly spectacular at first sight, monotonous after repetition. Stokley, the greatest showman in planetariana, provides variety to keep planetari-addicts coming in. Three years ago he depicted the "End of the World"-a huge moon drawing close to Earth after millions of years, eventually breaking up and showering Earth with its fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff...