Word: trylon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the stampede, while guards still breathed heavily, a northwest gale swept across the Fair grounds, ripped a chunk out of the Trylon's plaster surface. Trampled, disintegrating, giddy and gaudy was the World of Tomorrow in its closing days...
...been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed in the Marine Amphitheatre in the New York State Building, at the gateway to the amusement section and smack across the Fair from the Trylon & Perisphere Theme Centre, the Aquacade and its huge electric sign last week flashed out one of the most amazing success stories in the anthology of show business...
...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...
...mimic advertisement of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. showed its famed pyramidal tower in a trylon & perisphere arrangement partially obscured by a huge black 8-ball...
...name alone. He personally arranged and signed most of the major contracts, hired most of the important employes. His salary is supposed to be $100,000 and he earns it with such smart stunts as the commercial tie-ups he arranged for the fair. He has licensed the trylon & perisphere design for use on some 25,000 products-wallpaper, jewelry, furniture, cameras, rugs, etc.-at a royalty of 3 to 10% of the wholesale price of such articles sold. This has already produced $100,000 in unbudgeted revenue, is expected to bring in $1,000,000 eventually...