books.google.com - Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_1933_Chicago_World_s_Fair.html?id=GYXD8t4DDoIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe 1933 Chicago World's Fair