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Last week the fair grounds were pandemonium, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice. One afternoon last week, just as stock prices began cascading, boardrooms began buzzing with the report that the Major, anticipating "pandemonium," had wired his clients that the selling would start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: On the Spot | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony amid pandemonium which made their last night in Paris a real triumph. Although M. Sarraut almost swooned with anxiety, nobody took a shot at George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning to Dictators | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Chamber of Deputies the Popular Front majority showed fight, provoked pandemonium and suspension of the session by invalidating the recent election of Rightist Jean Goy. Screamed angry Rightists, "There is no more Chamber!", but soon it was sitting again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hospitality! | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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