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I wish a book like this had been around when I started my Business 38 years Services into one of the ago. I would have started making money much earlier. Small businesses makes this country run. Gary premier full-service investment Goldberg gives you ‘Entrepreneur 101’ . Invaluable information for achieving success. And it’s a fun management firms providing Money Management for Real read! People and helping thousands ~ Suzanne Somers of investors achieve their Actress & Entrepreneur retirement goals. www.ggfs.com 2 TUXEDO PARK LIFESTYLE [email protected] 845-351-5140 AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2018 3 Gather the World Together and Have a Fair 1939 World’s Fair n 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, a group of New York City retired policemen decided to create an international exposition to lift the city and the country out of depression. Not long after, these men formed the New York World’s Fair Corporation,I whose office was placed on one of the higher floors in the Empire State Building. They elected former chief of police Grover Whalen as the president of their committee. The committee included many enthusiastic business leaders. Over the next three years, the committee planned, built, and orga- nized the fair and its exhibits, with countries around the world taking part in creating the largest international event since World War I. Working closely with the Fair’s committee was Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner, who saw great value to the City in having the World’s Fair Corporation (at its expense), remove a vast ash dump in Queens that was to be the site for the exhibition. This event turned the area into a city park after the exposition closed. 4 TUXEDO PARK LIFESTYLE [email protected] 845-351-5140 AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2018 5 In 1938, eccentric multimillion- A public relations innovator saw the Washington’s inauguration as President aire, film producer, and aviator, Fair as an opportunity for corporations in New York City. Although many of the Howard Hughes, decided to attempt a to present consumer products, rather pavilions and other facilities were not record-setting flight around the world. than as an exercise in presenting science quite ready for this opening, it was put Since he was a “supporter” of the Fair, and the scientific way. Science was nev- on with pomp and great celebration. he offered up the flight as a publicity ertheless sparked by the Fair’s gadgetry. President Franklin Roosevelt gave stunt. He would deliver invitations to Promotion of this great event took the opening day address, and as a reflec- the Fair to the various countries he many forms. The Brooklyn Dodgers, tion of the wide range of technological visited during the trip. The Fair, of New York Giants, and New York innovations on parade at the fair, his course, accepted his proposal. Yankees baseball teams did their part speech was not only broadcast over the Hughes put the Fair’s insignia various radio networks but was on the side of his Lockheed 14 also televised. An estimated 1,000 plane, and arranged to participate people viewed the Roosevelt in multiple radio addresses and telecast from about 200 television other publicity efforts. The flight, sets scattered throughout the designed to encourage foreigners New York area. There were few to visit the Fair, also catered to fortunate enough to own a Hughes’s own tastes for thrill-seek- television in those days. ing and fame. In addition to On July 10th, 1938, Fair Roosevelt’s speech, Albert President, Grover Whalen was at Einstein gave a speech, Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to promote which discussed cosmic to see Hughes off, and World’s Fair the upcom- rays. This was at the same photographers snapped pictures ing Fair by time he had been working galore. Hughes completed the trip wearing closely with Alfred Loomis in three days, nineteen hours, and patches in Tuxedo Park. The seventeen minutes, setting a round- on their jerseys featuring the Trylon, ceremonial lighting of the Fair’s lights the-world flight record when he landed Perisphere, and “1939” on their left followed Einstein’s speech.
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