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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday parade in his honor, 2,000,000 heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military commander he is. He sat on a gilded thronelike chair placed on a raised dais covered with red plush. He was protected by a grey...
This year Ellison ("Tarzan") Brown, 24-year-old Narragansett Indian from Westerly, R. I., did not follow his usual custom. He hung back, let Leslie Pawson, the favorite, go out in front. At Natick the Rhode Island Redskin (whose Indian name, Attuck-Quock-Wussete, means Deer-foot) found himself leading the pack, along with Walter Young, 1937 winner. Together they loped along for twelve miles...
...shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
Already the fair's business stimulus has spread far beyond Manhattan. Washington is sprucing up for an expected 5,000,000 more summer visitors than usual. The $100,000.000 worth of materials used in building the fair have come from every corner of the U. S. Labor has benefited by some 96,000,000 man-hours. American Express Co. reports an 8 to 10% increase in export and import freight due to the fair. Railroads, airlines, busses joyously await "the greatest travel movement in history...
...turn an honest penny, it has done so. Those who bought the most fair bonds got a break. The fair pipes in water free from the city but is metering its tenants. Concessionaires' cash registers are rented from the fair. Many are the sharp but legal practices. The usual forms of building graft were supposedly prevented by strict competitive bidding for contracts. But it is quite possible some insiders stand to profit handsomely from the real-estate boom in Flushing that is sure to come. In any case, there is likely to be little muckraking before the fair...