Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1939 — Page 36
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WORLD'S FAIR GATES SWING OPEN SUNDAY
More Than 60 Million Vjsitors Expected at 155-Mil-lion-Dollar N. Y. Show.
NEW YORK, April 28 (U. P.).— The New York World's Fair, a $155, 000,000 extravaganza of industrial cultural and social achievement, will open its 11 gates at 10 o'clock Sunday morning (Indianapolis Time). Sixty foreign countries will join with the United States in celebrating civilization’s progress. A spectacle of lavish landscaping, color, light and unique architecture, dominated by the Trylon and Perisphere, the fair has been dedicated to “Building the World of Tomorrow.” A million visitors and 38,000 distinguished guests are expected Sunday when President Roosevelt will deliver an address and formally inaugurate the fair. At the opening and on subsequent days thee fair will reflect an air of gayety with its more serious note of “peace and progress.” For the exposition, with spectacles scattered over 1216 acres, is designed to be as amusing as it is educational. 1535 Million Invested
There are 1500 exhibitors and 60 foreign and 33 state participants. In the 280-acre Amusement Area there are 25 different shows, 12 rides and seven fun villages. To make possible this show, created out of a barren ash-heap in little more than three years, the fair corporation has invested $50,000,000; exhibitors, $35,000,000; foreign governments, $25,000,000; the New York City government, $20,000,000; concessionaires, $10,000,000; the New York State government, $6,500,000; the various states, $5,000,000, and the Federal government, $3,500,000. This total investment is counterbalanced by the fact that the fair expects 60,000,000 admissions, expenditure of approximately $100,000,000 on the Fair Grounds and $1,000,000.000 in New York City. The fair is divided into four major units: Main Exhibit Area, Court of States, International Area and Amusement Area. There also are| parking lots to accommodate 50,000 cars, a boat basin in Flushing Bay for crafts up to 12-foot draft ana picnic areas.
Theme Center First Stop
The first stop for visitors will be the Theme Center with its %700foot Trylon and 200-foot-diameter Perisphere. The latter is entered via a 120-foot escalator, longest in this country, up to the Trylon. . Then inside the huge globe, visitors step onto one of two “magic carpets.” From this vantage point they can look down upoh “Democracity,” or “the Garden City of Tomorrow.” Those who are seeking entertainment will find it in the industrial exhibits as well as in the Amusement Area. In the Transportation Zone, for instance, have been assembled dramatic views of every modern means of locomotion — railroads, steamships, automobiles and airplanes. In the Railway Building, largest structure at the fair, is the most complete miniature railroad ever constructed, operating for 30-minute periods at regular intervals. An interior view of the Aviation Building, which recalls the general outlines of a gigantic airdrome, will reveal a pilot sealed in a typical cabin of a plane, mounted on a universal joint, and demonstrating “blind flying.” Head-on crashes, somersaults upon somersaults, and other daredevil stunts also will be staged in the transportation section. Some other highlights among the industrial exhibits are:
Exhibit Priceless Documents A thriving American farmstead
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various foreign buildings. Above
City building.
An unusual panoramic view taken from a plane shows the condition of the grounds and buildings at the New York World’s Fair. At bottom of photo is the Federal building, on both sides of it are
tions. The long avenue leading to the trylon and perisphere, theme symbols, is called Constitution Mall. At the far end is the New York
it is the elliptical Lagoon of Na-
ARRANGE RITES FOR
VALPARAISO EDITOR
FT. WAYNE, April 28 (U. P.)— The body of Lynn W. Whipple, 42-year-old editor of the Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger, today had been returned to his home for burial. At an inquest last night, Deputy Coroner Dr. C. B. Parker said Mr. Whipple died of lobar pnuemonia aggravated by a weakened heart condition. His body was found yesterday in a Ft. Wayne hotel. Mr. Whipple came here last Tuesday on a business trip. He was suffering from a cold at the time.
KOPFF’S PERIODIC COMET REAPPEARS
By Science Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 28.— To join brilliant Hassel’s comet now
in the northwest sky, Kopff's periodic comet has returned to the! vicinity of the earth and sun after an absence of seven years. It was rediscovered by Prof. G. Van Biesbroeck of Yerkes Observatory recently. Far too faint (13th magnitude) to be seen by the unaided eye, it will be observed by large telescopes only. It is located in the constellation of Aquarius, the water-carrier, in the southeastern heavens just before sunrise.
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—rural life as it exists on farms| today—complete with cattle, sheep| and chickens and every type of] wheeled agricultural implement. A model of a human eve in the Medical and Health exhibit. This is so large that it will permit several visitors to enter at the same
time. The lens, or papil, of the eye looks upon a busy avenue of the! fair. By manipulation of levers} within, visitors will be able to view the lively scene as it appears to a | nearsighted or farsighted person] and to one of normal vision. Beyond the Lagoon is the immense Court of Peace, dominated by the Federal Building, an imposing $3,000,000 structure with two massive towers flanking a colonnade of 13 columns representing the 13 original states. Exhibited in this building will be priceless historical archives from government vaults. Flanking the Court of Peace are the Federal government’s Halls of Nations, comprising eight sections.
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Reproduce Foreign Scenes
Travelers will find the Foreign Zone a realization of that supposedly imaginary goal, “Around the World in 80 Minutes.” People, scenes and products from countries representing nearly 20 per cent of the inhabited portions of the earth can be glimpsed. At the same time the appetite can be taken on a world tour as 24 nations will have restaurants serving typical meals. The fair will have its fun for fun’s sake, too. Extending in a broad arc bevond the New York State Amphitheater and along the eastern shore of Fountain Lake is the 280-acre Amusement Area. Visitors can “bail out” from a parachute from a 250-foot tower to the ground in safety and find additional fun in the several “villages.” These include one of Cld New York of the days when the Bowery was the place to go. There is a “Winter Wonderland,” complete with a daily blizzard, toboggan slide and a ski jump; “Merrie England,” with Shakespeare's Globe Theater reproduced; a model “Penguin .Island,” contributed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Occupied by real penguins;
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