GOLDEN GATE EXPOSITION.
LIGHTING SYSTEM STARTED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feh. IS.
Four hundred acres of the Golden Gate Exposition broke into a blaze ol glory to-night when a ray of the noonday sun over Bombay set off a radio signal turning on the 1,500,000-dollar Treasure Island lighting system. To-morrow the Governor, Air Olson, using a jewelled key, will open the gates. It is expected that 250,009 people will attend. President Roosevelt will speak by radio from a battleship off the Florida coast. ihe 50,000,000-dollar rival to the New York World’s Fair will run for 288 days.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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95GOLDEN GATE EXPOSITION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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