As for the World’s Fair, the theme of the fair was “Man in a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe”. If that doesn’t sum up what’s happening this season then I don’t know what.

Lane Pryce and his superiors were not altogether wrong when they expressed concerns about the financial part of things. After the first season, the fair was running 25% below expected attendance (70 million over two years) and at a $10,000,000 deficit. Although a surge during the last few weeks of the run brought the attendance to 51 million, the fair did not make enough money to pay back its investors (in contrast to the 1893 World’s Fair, which pulled through at the last minute). The exposition ended with the fair teetering on bankruptcy and the fair’s managers accused of financial misconduct.

Here’s the logo for the World’s Fair and an interactive map.

• footnote - by Natasha Simons

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