1939 World's Fair | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair


00:01:47 1 Planning
00:05:00 2 Grand opening
00:07:34 3 Exhibits
00:11:36 4 Themes and zones
00:15:39 4.1 Transportation Zone
00:19:41 4.2 Communications and Business Systems Zone
00:21:03 4.3 Government Zone
00:22:05 4.3.1 British Pavilion
00:22:41 4.3.2 Greek Pavilion
00:23:39 4.3.3 Japanese Pavilion
00:24:46 4.3.4 Jewish Palestine Pavilion
00:25:18 4.3.5 Polish Pavilion
00:26:21 4.3.6 USSR Pavilion
00:26:52 4.4 Food Zone
00:28:14 4.5 Amusement Area
00:30:23 4.5.1 Bendix Lama Temple girlie show
00:31:02 4.5.2 Aquacade
00:32:07 4.6 Good Neighbor Policy
00:33:20 5 Transportation
00:34:52 6 Closure and current status
00:36:24 6.1 World War II
00:38:38 6.2 Belgian Pavilion
00:39:07 6.3 Bendix Lama Temple
00:39:51 6.4 New York City Building
00:41:06 7 Cultural references
00:41:33 7.1 Film and television
00:43:43 7.2 Literature
00:46:31 7.3 Other
00:47:17 8 Archives
00:48:12 9 See also



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SUMMARY
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The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the 1,216 acres (492 ha) of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. It was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow". According to the official pamphlet:

The eyes of the Fair are on the future—not in the sense of peering toward the unknown nor attempting to foretell the events of tomorrow and the shape of things to come, but in the sense of presenting a new and clearer view of today in preparation for tomorrow; a view of the forces and ideas that prevail as well as the machines.
To its visitors the Fair will say: "Here are the materials, ideas, and forces at work in our world. These are the tools with which the World of Tomorrow must be made. They are all interesting and much effort has been expended to lay them before you in an interesting way. Familiarity with today is the best preparation for the future.

Within six months of the Fair's opening, World War II began, a war that lasted six years and resulted in the deaths of 70-85 million people.