Word: fairgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1933, as A Century of Progress was closing, President Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health revealed that an outbreak of amebic dysentery, beginning in Chicago in mid-August, had spread over the U. S. Already many a Fairgoer, his physician having failed to recognize the comparatively rare ailment, had died and on many another Fairgoer the disease had laid its grip (TIME...
...John Fairgoer was found to be 29.15 years old. Taller and heavier than the average World War veteran, he stood 5 ft. 8.1 in. high, weighed 153 Ib. Jane Fairgoer was two years older than John. She weighed 138 Ib., was 5 ft. 3.65 in. tall...
Industry too has joined in the Fair's activitism. It knows the visitor can see its products in the stores of his home town; here it shows him how they are made. In General Motors' $1,000,000 assembly plant a Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases...