CHICAGO WORLD FAIR
OPENING OF EXHIBITION. PROGRESS OF CENTURY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) CHICAGO, May 27. The Postmaster-General, Mr Farley, acting for President Roosevelt, who was detained at Washington owing to the press of official business to-day, officially opened the Chicago World’s Fair and “Century of Progress Exposition,” commemorating 100 years of the city’s history. Elaborate buildings hjive been constructed on several hundred acres of reclaimed land in Lake Michigan, the expenditure being about £7,400,000. In addition to exhibits showing the commercial and industrial growth of the city there are buildings representing practically every foreign nation.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 29 May 1933, Page 5
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