Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed...
From the 12th Street entrance a brilliant Avenue of Flags sweeps the visitor down to a great U-shaped Hall of Science, heart of the Fair. Like other Fair buildings it is long, low, ultramodern, brilliantly painted-blocked and banded in orange, red. yellow, white. It is windowless, because sunlight is variable, electricity constant, and because windows are too expensive for buildings which will start coming down when the last sightseer leaves...
...Hall of Science the visitor will get his first taste of the Fair's keynote- Action. Here the sciences will be demonstrated not by dull charts and lectures, but by experiments actually performed. The layman will see how chemistry transmutes coal, wood, oil, rubber, minerals into paints, dyes, soaps, explosives, paper, food. He will see laid bare the basic mysteries not only of his radio, telephone, refrigerator, automobile but even his own body, in models with beating heart, breathing lungs, circulating blood. A huge steel robot, ten feet high, will point to foods on a table and lecture metallically...
IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA- André Siegfried-Harcourt, Brace ($2). André Siegfried has made a name for himself as a critical visitor, not only of the U. S. but of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. French to the core (which thinks itself sounder than that of any other nation) he looks about him in his travels with a penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book...
...Prohibition Amendment'). did the honors. Sir Henry & suite swept through the huge, roomy U-shaped brick structure, beamed at Director Randolph Thomas Major, saluted Director Hans Molitor whose philanthropic Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research occupies space in the new building. In the U. S., observed the chief visitor, there seems to be more deference paid to pharmacologists connected with educational institutions than to those connected with commercial organizations. In Europe this...