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  • He wore a faded purple T-shirt that said WORLD SHEEP EXPO 2001.†   (source)
  • There, headlining Local News: MAJOR DRUG BUST with a picture of Roberto in a sporty pair of cuffs, followed by a daunting expos La Eme and the crank epidemic.†   (source)
  • It was at this expo I worked, at the mall?†   (source)
  • Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Ursula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.†   (source)
  • No, those papers weren't the type of smart, dispassionate exposition he'll need to excel, not the kind of collegiate prose that attaches carefully qualified examples to broad principles.†   (source)
  • I took my time at the concession counter, watching the clock and debating what percentage of a ninety-minute movie could be spent on romantic exposition.†   (source)
  • I believe in humility, though my confession and exposition of the humility I believe in would run into an old fashioned two- or three-hour sermon.†   (source)
  • In the 15¢ dark green from the 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue ("Columbus Announcing His Discovery"), the faces of three courtiers, receiving the news at the right-hand side of the stamp, had been subtly altered to express uncontrollable fright.†   (source)
  • The newlyweds left on the train for the World's Fair and Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition that had opened (a year late) in St. Louis.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich found it hard to follow his exposition of them.†   (source)
  • Mr. Calhoun's clear and powerful exposition would have had something of a decisive effect if it had not been so soon followed by Mr. Webster's masterly playing.†   (source)
  • This was too much, even for the equally hardened businessmen of the exposition board.†   (source)
  • At one session in Chicago the committee asked Davis to estimate the final cost of the exposition.†   (source)
  • For Burnham and the exposition directors, this wave of financial damage was troubling.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the exposition seemed dangerously far from ready.†   (source)
  • The Exposition Company's decision raised a groundswell of greed throughout Chicago's South Side.†   (source)
  • The exposition had become a "hurricane," he said.†   (source)
  • Lyman Gage, still president of the exposition, was first to move.†   (source)
  • In Paris Olmsted went to the old exposition grounds.†   (source)
  • He needed more power—not for his own ego but for the sake of the exposition.†   (source)
  • Overall Olmsted remained confident that his exposition landscape would succeed.†   (source)
  • Bloom took his concerns to Exposition President Baker, who turned him over to Burnham.†   (source)
  • None of the exposition directors or officers had any illusions, however.†   (source)
  • The Exposition Company canceled the closing ceremony.†   (source)
  • He planned forays to public gardens and parks and the grounds of the old Paris exposition.†   (source)
  • The ball and Frank Millet's other inventions imparted to the exposition a wilder, happier air.†   (source)
  • The exposition's gravel paths, for example.†   (source)
  • The exposition was to be a giant white banner waved in Mrs. Astor's face.†   (source)
  • Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of "mysterious poetic effect."†   (source)
  • That night the exposition illuminated the fairgrounds one last time.†   (source)
  • The exposition, if built right—if it topped Paris—might dispel that sentiment once and for all.†   (source)
  • He needed someone to manage his firm's ongoing work while he tended to the exposition.†   (source)
  • He had promised his wife that after the exposition the pace of his work would ease.†   (source)
  • Outsiders wondered if Root's death might mean the death of the exposition.†   (source)
  • Burnham described his vision of a fair larger and grander than the Paris exposition.†   (source)
  • Beyond the exposition's eight-foot fence and its two tiers of barbed wire, there was tumult.†   (source)
  • The exposition was to be a warm-weather affair, set to run from May through October.†   (source)
  • The Ferris Wheel quickly became the most popular attraction of the exposition.†   (source)
  • In the highest sense he is the planner of the Exposition, Frederick Law Olmsted….†   (source)
  • Clearly the possibility of failure at the exposition had occurred to Olmsted and troubled him.†   (source)
  • Burnham, stunned, summoned one of the exposition surgeons.†   (source)
  • The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream.†   (source)
  • Four exposition workers lost their lives, two from fractured skulls, two electrocuted.†   (source)
  • The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.†   (source)
  • The exposition was Chicago's great pride.†   (source)
  • His T-shirt'which said ARMAGEDDON EXPO '06: ARE YOU READY FOR THE END?†   (source)
  • "There is not a square rod of admirable, hardly one of passable, gravel-walk in all of the Exposition Ground," he wrote.†   (source)
  • The exposition could help, he realized, providing it did rise to the heights envisioned by Ellsworth.†   (source)
  • Ships began converging on U.S. ports from all over the world bearing exposition cargoes of the most exotic kind.†   (source)
  • Between Harry and the soon-to-begin World's Columbian Exposition, the city became irresistible to her.†   (source)
  • In December the exposition experienced its first death: a man named Mueller at the Mines Building, dead of a fractured skull.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday, June 1, exposition photographer Charles Arnold took a photograph of the building to record its progress.†   (source)
  • "Let me remind you that the whole field of the Exposition has already come to be popularly called 'THE WHITE CITY'….†   (source)
  • Chicago had the resolve to make this exposition a reality, the same resolve that had made the city the second largest in America.†   (source)
  • "Everywhere there is growing interest in the Exposition," he told Burnham in a June 20 letter from Biltmore.†   (source)
  • Bloom told him about the rights he had acquired in Paris and how the exposition had rebuffed his petition.†   (source)
  • With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition.†   (source)
  • The exposition by day might wear a chaste gown of white staff, but at night it danced barefoot and guzzled champagne.†   (source)
  • The task of sorting through Codman's accumulated papers and of taking over the exposition work now seemed beyond him.†   (source)
  • Chicago promptly established a formal corporation, the World's Columbian Exposition Company, to finance and build the fair.†   (source)
  • Now he needed to seek approval from the Exposition Company's executive committee at every step, even to buy drafting boards.†   (source)
  • Olmsted recognized that now he himself would have to take over direct supervision of the exposition work, but he felt less up to the duty than ever.†   (source)
  • Bloom's knack for promotion caught the attention of other fair officials, who came to him for help in raising the exposition's overall profile.†   (source)
  • He formed an exposition tire department and ordered the installation of hundreds of fire hydrants and telegraphic alarm boxes.†   (source)
  • For Burnham, each lost moment was a theft from the already scanty fund of time allotted to build the exposition.†   (source)
  • For outsiders, it was the sheer size of the exposition that made it seem such an impossible challenge.†   (source)
  • The sense of ownership was everywhere, not just among the tens of thousands of citizens who had bought exposition stock.†   (source)
  • The railroads had made it known early and forcefully that they had no plans to discount their Chicago fares for the exposition.†   (source)
  • He had paid them even when illness or injury kept them out of work and established an exposition hospital that provided free medical care.†   (source)
  • Every carnival since 1893 has included a Midway and a Ferris Wheel, and every grocery store contains products born at the exposition.†   (source)
  • "Its failure to appreciate its importance," the souvenir said, "has cost the Exposition Company many thousands of dollars."†   (source)
  • The Exposition Company took about half, leaving Ferris an operating profit for that one week of $13,948 (equivalent today to about $400,000).†   (source)
  • At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth.†   (source)
  • ON JULY 31, 1893, after two investigative hearings, the Retrenchment Committee gave its report to the exposition's Board of Directors.†   (source)
  • "It sickens me when I look at this great Exposition to think that it will be allowed to crumble to dust," he said.†   (source)
  • Entranced by the Algerian Village at the Paris exposition, he had bought the rights to display the village and its inhabitants at future events.†   (source)
  • Olmsted's greatest concern, however, was that the main, Jackson Park portion of the exposition simply was not fun.†   (source)
  • He and John Root had considered designing the whole exposition themselves, and indeed their peers jealously expected they would do so.†   (source)
  • The constant clash between the Exposition Company and the National Commission had become nearly unbearable.†   (source)
  • Soon the level of construction would increase even more, as entrepreneurs prepared to cash in on the expected crush of exposition visitors.†   (source)
  • Olmsted's plans alone would make the exposition unique, with lagoons, canals, and great lawns all set against the cobalt-blue steppe of Lake Michigan.†   (source)
  • So far the exposition's publicity office had given the press a detailed list of monumental but dreary statistics.†   (source)
  • In 1903 the Chicago House Wrecking Company bought the wheel at auction for $8,150, then reassembled it at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.†   (source)
  • The Fire Department rang a second alarm at 1:41 P.M. and activated the big siren at the exposition's Machinery Building.†   (source)
  • Edison suggested the exposition use incandescent bulbs rather than arc lights, because the incandescent variety produced a softer light.†   (source)
  • Emeline took her cousins on a tour of Holmes's building and told them of his effort to transform it into a hotel for exposition guests.†   (source)
  • A rising union man named Samuel Gompers stopped by Burnham's office to discuss allegations that the exposition discriminated against union workers.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday, August 6, 1890, three weeks after Ellsworth's Brookline visit, the exposition company telegraphed Olmsted: "When can you be here?"†   (source)
  • He once had lived in Chicago where he and an associate, Benjamin Pitezel, had run a hotel during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.†   (source)
  • "The only cloud I see over the Exposition now is the Cholera," he wrote in a letter to his Brookline office.†   (source)
  • Ellsworth insisted that what Chicago had in mind was something far grander than even the Paris exposition.†   (source)
  • Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity's Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition.†   (source)
  • Train claimed the real reason he was invited to the exposition was to save it by using his psychic powers to increase attendance.†   (source)
  • Ferris could not resist tweaking the Exposition Company for not granting him a concession sooner than it did.†   (source)
  • The directors insisted on many gates, and the railroads refused to channel their exposition traffic through a single depot.†   (source)
  • And indeed soon afterward the fair's Grounds and Buildings Committee authorized him to invite the men to join the exposition.†   (source)
  • The civility of this encounter belied a caustic battle being waged outside Jackson Park for the rights to illuminate the exposition.†   (source)
  • Exposition President Baker immediately cabled Eiffel that the directors would be delighted to see whatever he proposed.†   (source)
  • The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined.†   (source)
  • At best the most important part of all our work will have to be done at night after the opening of the Exposition.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the idea of hosting a great exposition to commemorate Columbus's discovery of the New World became irresistible.†   (source)
  • "I have assumed personal control of the active work within the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition," he wrote.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the exposition had entered that precarious early phase common to every great construction project when unexpected obstacles suddenly emerge.†   (source)
  • In December 1891 Burnham received a proposal from a tugboat manufacturer arguing the case for steam launches at the exposition.†   (source)
  • Olmsted did think about it and began to see the exposition as an opportunity to achieve something for which he had fought long and hard but almost always with disappointing results.†   (source)
  • Clearly the dinner was a weapon meant to ignite enthusiasm and show the easterners that Chicago fully intended to follow through on its grand boasts about the exposition.†   (source)
  • Unbelievably, despite Olmsted's hectoring, Burnham still seemed to consider steam-powered launches an acceptable choice for the exposition's boat service.†   (source)
  • Olmsted used the opportunity to describe in detail Jackson Park and the trials of dealing with the exposition's many layers of committees that for the moment seemed to have so much power.†   (source)
  • "It comes from rich and poor alike....I think that I have myself paid ten times as much for lunch at the Exposition as I did a few days ago, for an equally good one in Knoxville, Tenn.†   (source)
  • DESPITE HIS MISGIVINGS OLMSTED LEFT the completion of the exposition landscape in the hands of Ulrich and adopted a punishing schedule of work and travel that took him through sixteen states.†   (source)
  • He agreed to serve as a director only out of fear that the exposition was indeed at risk of fulfilling the meager expectations of the East and becoming "simply a fair as the term generally implies."†   (source)
  • Had the Exposition Company stood by its original June 1892 concession rather than waiting until nearly six months later, the wheel would have been ready for the fair's May 1 opening.†   (source)
  • The lake was beautiful and always changing in hue and texture, but it was also, Olmsted argued, a novelty capable of amplifying the drawing power of the exposition.†   (source)
  • He was bothered, too, by the noise of the few steam vessels that Burnham, over his repeated objections, had authorized to travel the exposition's waters alongside the electric launches.†   (source)
  • His main entrance was so close to one of the busiest exposition gates that some visitors thought his show was the world's fair, and were said to have gone home happy.†   (source)
  • The sky seemed to reach into the exposition, and somewhere glass shattered, not the gentle tinkling of a window extinguished by a stone but the hurt-dog yelp of large sheets falling to the ground.†   (source)
  • Earlier, in July 1891, the exposition had granted a contract for the work to the Hygeia Mineral Springs Company, headed by an entrepreneur named J. E. McElroy, but the company had accomplished little.†   (source)
  • Cody also was able to hold performances on Sundays and, being outside the fairgrounds, did not have to contribute half his revenue to the Exposition Company.†   (source)
  • Some that night worked on a small notice announcing the opening of a new hotel, clearly another hastily built affair meant to capitalize on the expected crush of exposition visitors.†   (source)
  • At nearly one thousand feet in height, the tower remained the tallest structure in the world and an insufferable reminder of the triumph of the Paris exposition.†   (source)
  • In November 1890 Holmes learned along with the rest of Chicago that the directors of the World's Columbian Exposition had at last reached a decision as to where to build the fair.†   (source)
  • "Never lose sight of the fact that our special responsibility as landscape artists applies primarily to the broad, comprehensive scenery of the Exposition," Olmsted wrote.†   (source)
  • The visit rekindled his concern that in the quest to surpass the Paris exposition Burnham and his architects had lost sight of what a world's fair ought to be.†   (source)
  • The gardens were sparse, suppressed by a long winter, and the buildings had not weathered well, but enough of the fair remained to give him "a tolerable idea" of what the exposition once had been.†   (source)
  • Readers of Rand, McNally's exposition guidebooks eventually found themselves thrilling to the vision of millions of fur-hatted men squeezed onto the building's thirty-two-acre floor.†   (source)
  • "The boats are cheap, graceless, clumsy affairs, as much out of place in what people are calling the 'Court of Honor' of the Exposition as a cow in a flower garden."†   (source)
  • The overall effect, he wrote, "is thus to be in some degree of the character of a theatrical scene, to occupy the Exposition stage for a single summer."†   (source)
  • On July 5, 1894, arsonists set fire to the seven greatest palaces of the exposition—Post's immense Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Hunt's dome, Sullivan's Golden Door, all of them.†   (source)
  • Harrison and Miss Howard had some news for the city, but the mayor had no plans to reveal it until October 28, when the exposition would host American Cities Day.†   (source)
  • The exposition work was still far behind schedule and a major source of worry, but Olmsted's health and the pressure of other work had forced him from Chicago.†   (source)
  • Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent.†   (source)
  • He knew the praise was premature, but the banquet hinted at the greater glory that would accrue to him at fair's end, provided of course the exposition met the world's elaborate expectations.†   (source)
  • Put in the waters unbecoming boats and the effect would be utterly disgusting, destroying the value of what would otherwise be the most valuable original feature of this Exposition.†   (source)
  • He was hesitant and told De Young he saw no value in making the journey until the exposition's directors had a better idea of the kinds of attractions they wanted.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday, August 12, just four days after he and Codman arrived in Chicago, Olmsted filed a report with the exposition directors, who then to his chagrin made the report public.†   (source)
  • President Cleveland ordered federal troops to Chicago and placed them under the command of General Nelson A. Miles, previously the grand marshal of the exposition.†   (source)
  • It cheered when the exposition orchestra played "Home Sweet Home," a song that never failed to reduce grown men and women to tears, especially the newest arrivals to the city.†   (source)
  • Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition's Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field.†   (source)
  • But the best news came the next day, when officials of the World's Columbian Exposition Company, whose boasts had been ridiculed far and wide, presented a check for $1.†   (source)
  • At first, most Americans believed that if an exposition honoring the deepest roots of the nation were to be held anywhere, the site should be Washington, the capital.†   (source)
  • The constant threat of strike and the onset of deep cold shaded the new year for Burnham, but what most concerned him was the fast-shrinking treasury of the Exposition Company.†   (source)
  • A new cereal, Shredded Wheat, seemed unlikely to succeed—"shredded doormat," some called it—but a new beer did well, winning the exposition's top beer award.†   (source)
  • The directors of the Exposition Company did decide to seek a direct appropriation from Congress, but their request triggered a congressional investigation of the fair's expenditures.†   (source)
  • On Holmes's next visit to Wilmette, he invited Belknap to visit Englewood for a tour of his building and of the newly chosen site for the World's Columbian Exposition.†   (source)
  • DESPITE ITS INCOMPLETE EXHIBITS, rutted paths, and stretches of unplanted ground, the exposition revealed to its early visitors a vision of what a city could be and ought to be.†   (source)
  • Demand for railcars to carry visitors to the exposition had spared the Pullman Works, but by the end of the fair George Pullman too began cutting wages and workers.†   (source)
  • In Paris on the Champ de Mars, France opened the Exposition Universelle, a world's fair so big and glamorous and so exotic that visitors came away believing no exposition could surpass it.†   (source)
  • "Some distinctive feature is needed," Burnham continued, "something to take the relative position in the World's Columbian Exposition that was filled by the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition."†   (source)
  • They were to sit at a large T-shaped table, with Lyman Gage, president of the exposition, at the center of the topmost table, Hunt on his right, Olmsted on his left.†   (source)
  • Reverend Dr. J. H. Barrows read a blessing and benediction and then, at the request of exposition officials, read a speech that Higinbotham had prepared for the originally planned ceremony.†   (source)
  • The gross features of the fair envisioned in the plan concealed a billion smaller obstacles that the public and most of the exposition's own directors had no idea existed.†   (source)
  • He gave Bloom a cable from the Exposition Company that empowered De Young to hire someone to select the concessions for the Midway Plaisance and guide their construction and promotion.†   (source)
  • There was the threat of fire and weather and disease: Already foreign editors were asking who would dare attend the exposition given Chicago's notorious problems with sewage.†   (source)
  • The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction, but the work did not start until July 3, 1891, with less than sixteen months remaining until Dedication Day.†   (source)
  • He knew its flaws, its many flaws, but believed that with a lot of deft dredging and sculpting, the park could be transformed into a landscape unlike any that had ever seated an exposition.†   (source)
  • A number of exposition directors held General Electric stock and urged William Baker, president of the fair since Lyman Gage's April retirement, to accept the bid.†   (source)
  • On July 20 he telegraphed Exposition President William Baker that he was confident he could acquire as many Pygmies from the Congo as he wished, provided the king of Belgium consented.†   (source)
  • The previous spring his men had planted nearly everything raised in the exposition's nurseries, plus an additional 200,000 trees, aquatic plants, and ferns, and 30,000 more willow cuttings, all this under the direction of his aptly named head gardener, E. Dehn.†   (source)
  • At exactly four forty-five, sunset, the warship Michigan fired one of its cannon and continued to fire twenty times more as one thousand men quietly took up positions at each of the exposition's flags.†   (source)
  • The exposition directors' decision on where to locate the fair had caused a rapid acceleration of events that was encouraging but also unsettling, because suddenly the whole thing had become more real, its true magnitude more daunting.†   (source)
  • THE EXPOSITION PROVED UNABLE to hold the Black City at bay for very long. With its formal closure thousands more workers joined the swelling army of the unemployed, and homeless men took up residence among the great abandoned palaces of the fair.†   (source)
  • The bankers were pressuring the exposition's directors to appoint a Retrenchment Committee empowered not just to seek out ways of reducing the fair's expenses but to execute whatever cost-saving measures it deemed necessary, including layoffs and the elimination of departments and committees.†   (source)
  • The weather threatened to dull the elaborate fireworks display that Frank Millet had planned as a further boost for the exposition's attendance, which despite steady week-to-week increases still lagged behind expectations.†   (source)
  • To attract visitors for the close, Frank Millet planned a day-long celebration with music, speeches, fireworks, and a landing by "Columbus" himself from the exposition's full-sized replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, built in Spain for the fair.†   (source)
  • In separate statements, the Retrenchment Committee urged the directors to make the committee permanent and invest it with the power to approve or deny every expenditure at the exposition, no matter how small.†   (source)
  • The burden of restoring the nation's pride and prominence in the wake of the Paris exposition had fallen upon Chicago, and Chicago in turn had lodged it firmly, if for now discreetly, on the top floor of the Rookery.†   (source)
  • Daniel Burnham arrived in Chicago to find the city's architects and members of the exposition board outraged that he had gone outside the city—to New York, of all godforsaken places—to court architects for the fair; that he had snubbed the likes of Adler, Sullivan, and Jenney.†   (source)
  • But the best news came the next day, when officials of the World's Columbian Exposition Company, whose boasts had been ridiculed far and wide, presented a check for $1.5 million to the Illinois Trust and Savings Company and thereby extinguished the last of the exposition's debts.†   (source)
  • The exposition's union carpenters, aware of their great value in this final phase of construction, seized the moment and walked off the job, demanding a minimum union wage and other long-sought concessions.†   (source)
  • As the notion of an exposition gained shape, however, other cities began to see it as a prize to be coveted, mainly for the stature it would confer, stature being a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.†   (source)
  • The Exposition Company's shrinking war chest had driven its relationship with the National Commission to a new low, with Director-General Davis arguing that any new federal money should be controlled by his commission.†   (source)
  • He still wished the Wooded Island had been left alone, and he decried the unplanned proliferation of concession buildings that "intercepted vistas and disturbed spaces intended to serve for the relief of the eye from the too nearly constant demands upon attention of the Exposition Buildings."†   (source)
  • Competition for the few jobs available had intensified as thousands of unemployed men from around the country—unhappily bearing the label "hobo," derived possibly from the railroad cry "ho, boy"—converged on Chicago in hopes of getting exposition work.†   (source)
  • "It seemed to me," he wrote, in a letter to John in Brookline, "that at the least it must have been extremely disquieting, gaudy & childish, if not savage and an injury to the Exposition, through its disturbance of dignity, and injury to breadth, unity & composure."†   (source)
  • Cody upstaged the fair again in July, when exposition officials rejected a request from Mayor Carter Harrison that the fair dedicate one day to the poor children of Chicago and admit them at no charge.†   (source)
  • The tug-maker's letter, he complained, framed the boat question solely in terms of moving the greatest number of passengers between different points at the exposition as cheaply and quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago's conscience, the city it wanted to become.†   (source)
  • "This duty is not to make a garden, or to produce garden effects, but relates to the scenery of the Exposition as a whole; first of all and most essentially the scenery, in a broad and comprehensive way….†   (source)
  • The owner of the drugstore, though very young, was prosperous and dynamic, truly a man of the age, and seemed destined for even greater success given that the World's Columbian Exposition was to be built just a short streetcar ride east, at the end of Sixty-third.†   (source)
  • Rather than squabbling over sites, he lectured, the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed, everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.†   (source)
  • He offered a rousing oration on the brilliance of the future exposition and the need now for the great men in the banquet hall to think first of the fair, last of themselves, affirming that only through the subordination of self would the exposition succeed.†   (source)
  • That Prendergast might one day shape the destiny of the World's Columbian Exposition would have seemed ridiculous to these boys, for Prendergast to them was about as hapless and sorry a human being as they could imagine.†   (source)
  • Edward Jefferey, chairman of the Grounds and Buildings Committee, said, "There is no man in the profession of architects who has the genius and ability to take up the Exposition work where Mr. Root left off."†   (source)
  • After asserting that "the architects of America had covered themselves with glory" through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation's civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance.†   (source)
  • In the midst of this intensifying financial turbulence, on October 30 the exposition board appointed Burnham chief of construction, with a salary equivalent to $360,000; Burnham in turn made Root the fair's supervising architect and Olmsted its supervising landscape architect.†   (source)
  • Director-General Davis spoke next and offered a meaty helping of distorted reality, praising the way the National Commission, the Exposition Company, and the Board of Lady Managers had worked together without strife to produce such a brilliant exposition.†   (source)
  • Its official name was the World's Columbian Exposition, its official purpose to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, but under Burnham, its chief builder, it had become something enchanting, known throughout the world as the White City.†   (source)
  • A subsequent resolution approved by the Exposition Company's directors stated that as of August 1, "no expenditures whatever connected with the construction, maintenance or conduct of the Exposition shall be incurred unless authorized by said committee."†   (source)
  • There was not much time left, but if he acted quickly to produce drawings and managed to convince the fair's Ways and Means Committee of the idea's feasibility, he believed the exposition could indeed out-Eiffel Eiffel.†   (source)
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