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RealAudio  |  2017-09-21  |  497.1 KB  |  1 channel  |  8,000 sample rate  |  4 minutes, 27 seconds

Transcription: In the darkest phase of the Depression, they dreamed of orderly, hygienic cities and houses. They looked ahead to safe, fast travel on luxurious, streamlined aircraft, trains, buses, ships, and automobiles. Unlike modern architects, whose utopias rarely developed beyond the drawing stage, the first American industrial designers were able to build their model city, the 1939 New York World's Fair. The 1939 New York World's Fair suffered from unfortunate timing and investors lost two-thirds of their investment. Before World War II broke out full-fledged however, the fair attracted large crowds to ...

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