Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Express has done "easily half" the Fair business it had anticipated. Since the Fair opened, Baltimore & Ohio traffic has been double 1938; Pennsylvania Railroad up 20%; New York Central a meagre...
Loudest boast of dressy, horsy Grover Whalen was what the Fair would do for New York City. He talked about a billion dollars worth of business to be split between the Fair and the city. A good guesstimate last week was that the Fair had brought not more than $100,000,000 of extra spending to the city. The available facts...
...part of this sorry fiscal plight Fair officials blame labor. They made a deal with A. F. of L.'s New York Building & Construction Trades Council to employ only union labor. The contract called for no work stoppage because of jurisdictional disputes between local unions. But work did stop while unions haggled over which should pull what cable, etc. Construction was slowed up and in the closing rush to complete the Fair on schedule, overtime charges ate into the budget. World's Fair officials maintain labor disputes raised Fair costs about $2,000,000, cost exhibitors and concessionaires...
What has kept the attendance below estimates is anybody's guess. Some guesses: 1) entrance fee too high; 2) unfavorable reports of high food prices, etc. (an 85? dinner, 40? lunch, can be got at the Fair but its swank restaurants charge five times as much); 3) New York City itself is too much competition for any world's fair; 4) antagonism of country's press toward New York; 5) absence of community pride among New Yorkers; 6) hard times. Whatever the reasons, the Fair failed to get its expected Big Push in July. (For that month...
Like many another treaty, this one can be stretched. It was stretched when many signatories put up their own buildings in defiance of the Bureau's designation of the New York World's Fair as a Category 2 fair (meaning it must build pavilions for foreign exhibitors who are supposed to build them themselves only at Category 1 fairs...