WORLD'S FAIR
CENTURY OF PROGRESS CHICAGO'S BIG EXPOSITION (Received May 28 . 6.35 p.m.) CHICAGO, May 27 The Postmaster-General Mr. J. A. Farley, acting for President Roosevelt, who was detained in Washington owing to tho pressure of official business, to-day officially opened the Chicago World's Fair, or "Century of Progress Exposition." It commemorates 100 years of tho city's history. Elaborate buildings have been erected on several hundred acres of land reclaimed from Lake Michigan at an expenditure of about 37,000,000 dollars. In addition to exhibits showing the commercial and industrial growth of tho city, there aro buildings representing practically every foreign nation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21503, 29 May 1933, Page 9
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