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55-573: The initial product, Arête Encyclopedia, was created on a schedule that was too tight resulting in many difficulties. The first Vice President of Editorial, Larry Lustig, came from Encyclopaedia Britannica and found the pressure too great. He was replaced by Michael Reed who came from World Book Encyclopedia . Reed asked several times to have the production schedule lengthened to straighten out what had already been produced and assure reasonable time for completion. After six months, with no schedule change, Reed resigned rather than have his name associated with

110-716: A "Month in Brief" time browser are available by subscription. In 2002, Apple included a bundled copy of the Mac OS X Edition of World Book Encyclopedia when they made OS X the default operating system for all new computers. This edition had some Mac-only features, including a more intuitive user interface, Sticky Notes sharing via Bonjour technology, a Trivia Challenge game, a collection of editor-approved webcams, Notepad, speech capabilities and "This Day in History", "Media Showcase" and "Librarian" widgets . Since November 2007, both

165-544: A Research Guide and Index were added to World Book . In 2000, World Book published its Millennium Edition. Unlike the way most other encyclopedias were printed, World Book has traditionally been published in variously sized volumes, depending on the letter of the alphabet. Although most volumes cover exactly one letter completely, the letters with exceptionally numerous entries ("C" and "S") are divided between two volumes, while adjacent letters with relatively few entries ("J"–"K", "N"–"O", "Q"–"R", "U"–"V", and "W"–"Z") share

220-631: A replica of Point du Sable's cabin was presented as part of the "background of the history of Chicago". Also on display was the "Lincoln Group" of reconstructions of buildings associated with the biography of Abraham Lincoln, including his birth cabin, the Lincoln-Berry General Store , the Chicago Wigwam (in reduced scale), and the Rutledge Tavern which served as a restaurant. Admiral Byrd's polar expedition ship

275-494: A rule," wrote O'Shea, the founding editor, in the preface of that 1st edition, "encyclopedias are apt to be quite formal and technical. A faithful effort has been made in the World Book to avoid this common defect." The encyclopedia's name would later be shortened to its current name World Book . In 1919, World Book became the property of W.F. Quarrie & Company. The new owners created an editorial board to help make sure

330-492: A search function and offers the complete text of the Academic American Encyclopedia , including illustrations , photographs , animated maps , music and videos . In co-operation with The Software Toolworks company was created The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia . World Book Encyclopedia The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia . World Book

385-523: A total of 39,052,236. Much of the fair site is now home to Northerly Island park (since the closing of Meigs Field ) and McCormick Place . The Balbo Monument , given to Chicago by Benito Mussolini to honor General Italo Balbo 's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight, still stands near Soldier Field . The city added a third red star to its flag in 1933 to commemorate the Century of Progress Exposition (the Fair

440-574: A utopia, or perfect world, founded on democracy and manufacturing." A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois nonprofit corporation in January 1928 for the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. City officials designated three and a half miles of newly reclaimed land along the shore of Lake Michigan between 12th and 39th streets on the Near South Side for

495-469: A variation on the vertical (i.e., paternoster lift ) parking garage—all the cars were new Nashes; Lincoln presented its rear-engined "concept car" precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr , which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline "Suddenly it's 1940!" But it was Packard which won the best of show with

550-405: A volume. World Book editors lay out major articles distinctly, often starting them on a page of their own, perhaps with a two-column heading. Materials are reviewed and authored by experts. They recognize that one of the primary uses of general-purpose encyclopedias is students' work on school reports. For instance, every article for a U.S. state has a box giving information about such things as

605-592: Is based in Chicago , Illinois . According to the company, the latest edition, World Book Encyclopedia 2024 , contains more than 14,000 pages distributed along 22 volumes and also contains over 25,000 photographs. World Book also publishes children's non-fiction and picture books under the Bright Connections Media imprint, and educational development and supplemental instructional resources through Incentive Publications by World Book . World Book

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660-455: Is now on exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry . Frank Buck furnished a wild animal exhibit, Frank Buck's Jungle Camp. Over two million people visited Buck's reproduction of the camp he and his native assistants lived in while collecting animals in Asia. After the fair closed, Buck moved the camp to a compound he had created at Amityville, New York . Planning for the design of

715-418: Is now represented by the fourth of four stars on the flag). In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated a statue of Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus . It was placed at the south end of Grant Park, near the site of the fair. The Polish Museum of America possesses the painting of Pulaski at Savannah by Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski , which

770-642: Is the company's website; the official list price is $ 1,199. A company representative said in 2018 that "thousands" of print sets are still ordered annually, mostly by schools who use them as teaching tools for library research skills; public libraries and homeschooling families are also frequent purchasers. The first edition of World Book (1917) contained eight volumes. New editions have since appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932, with major revisions in 1929 (13 volumes), 1947 (19 volumes), 1960 (20 volumes), 1971 (22 volumes), and 1988 (new typeface and page design, and some 10,000 new editorial features). In 1972,

825-505: The City of New York was visited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he came to the fair on October 2, 1933. The City was on show for the full length of the exhibition. One of the highlights of the 1933 World's Fair was the arrival of the German airship Graf Zeppelin on October 26, 1933. After circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander Hugo Eckener landed

880-591: The World Book Dictionary based on the works of Clarence Barnhart , was published as a companion to the encyclopedia. In 1977, staff members of World Book visited President Jimmy Carter in the White House . In 1978, World Book was purchased by Scott Fetzer Company , an Ohio conglomerate that left the encyclopedia company in Chicago. That year, the company had a sales force of 60,000 and vastly outsold Encyclopædia Britannica . In 1985,

935-627: The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. Designed largely in Art Deco style, the theme of the fair was technological innovation , and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded. Its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride , a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of

990-695: The World Book Multimedia Information Finder CD-ROMs were released, which include more than 150,000 index entries, 1,700 tables, 60,000 cross references, 17,000 articles, and 225,000 dictionary entries with hyperlinks to more than 5,000 pictures and 260 maps. The Multimedia Information Finder also features animations, videos, and a graphical timeline. In 1998, World Book launched its first website. Subsequently, World Book released several digital products while continuing to publish its print edition. The online version includes 23 subscription databases with all of

1045-631: The "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash". To cap its record-breaking speed run, the Zephyr arrived dramatically on-stage at the fair's "Wings of a Century" transportation pageant. The two trains launched an era of industrial streamlining. Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the City of Salina , and the Burlington Zephyr as the first Pioneer Zephyr . The Zephyr

1100-607: The 776-foot airship at the nearby Curtiss-Wright Airport in Glenview . It remained on the ground for twenty-five minutes (from 1 to 1:25 pm) then took off ahead of an approaching weather front, bound for Akron, Ohio . The "dream cars" which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Rollston bodywork on a Duesenberg chassis, and was called the Twenty Grand ultra-luxury sedan; Cadillac 's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash 's exhibit had

1155-588: The Belgian Village (Burnham Brothers with Alfons De Rijdt), and the Streets of Paris (Andrew Rebori and John W. Root) where fan dancer Sally Rand performed. These buildings were constructed out of five-ply Douglas fir plywood, ribbed-metal siding, and prefabricated boards such as Masonite, Sheetrock, Maizewood, as well as other new man-made materials. The exhibited buildings were windowless (but cheerfully lighted) buildings. Structural advances also filled

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1210-843: The Century of Progress fair in Chicago. The major archive for the Century of Progress International Exposition, including the official records from the event and the papers of Lenox Lohr, general manager of the fair, are housed in Special Collections at the University of Illinois, Chicago . A collection of materials including images is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago . The Century of Progress Collection includes photographs, guidebooks, brochures, maps, architectural drawings , and souvenir items. Specific collections with material include

1265-479: The Exposition began over five years prior to Opening Day. According to an official resolution, decisions regarding the site layout and the architectural style of the exposition were relegated to an architectural commission, which was led by Paul Cret and Raymond Hood . Local architects on the committee included Edward Bennett , John Holabird , and Hubert Burnham. Frank Lloyd Wright was specifically left off

1320-720: The Federal Building (Bennet, Burnham, and Holabird); corporate pavilions, including the General Motors Building (Albert Kahn) and the Sears Pavilion (Nimmons, Carr, and Wright); futuristic model houses, most popular was the twelve-sided House of Tomorrow (George Frederick Keck); as well as progressive foreign pavilions, including the Italian Pavilion (Mario de Renzi and Adalberto Libera); and historic and ethnic entertainment venues, such as

1375-558: The Federal Building for the fair. The frieze was composed of twelve murals depicting the influence of sea power on America, beginning with the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia , in 1607 when sea power first reached America and carrying through World War I. Another set of murals, painted for the Ohio State Exhibit by William Mark Young , was relocated afterwards to the Ohio Statehouse . Young also painted scenes of

1430-653: The Old Morocco, where future stars Judy Garland , the Cook Family Singers, and the Andrews Sisters performed), and a recreation of important scenes from Chicago's history. The fair also contained exhibits that would seem shocking to modern audiences, including offensive portrayals of African Americans , a "Midget City" complete with "sixty Lilliputians ", and an exhibition of incubators containing real babies. The fair included an exhibit on

1485-612: The Scott Fetzer Company was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway . In the late 1980s, while the World Book sales force had declined, it still had 45,000 door-to-door representatives. For the year 1990, Berkshire Hathaway reported that the business of producing the encyclopedia had generated profits of $ 32 million. But as sales plunged in the 1990s, World Book' s results were no longer broken out in Berkshire Hathaway financial reports. In 2009, Funk & Wagnalls

1540-528: The Windows and Mac electronic editions of World Book Encyclopedia have been developed and published by Software MacKiev. Other World Book products include: Century of Progress A Century of Progress International Exposition , also known as the Chicago World's Fair , was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago , Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under

1595-491: The articles contained in the print set, as well as several thousand additional articles and the contents of every yearbook World Book has published since 1922. Articles are also available in the Spanish language. The online version contains links to current web sites and magazine articles, a news section, and video samples. In 2008, World Book Student was launched for students and teachers online. World Book Encyclopedia

1650-549: The commission due to his inability to work well with others, but did go on to produce three conceptual schemes for the fair. Members of this committee ended up designing most of the large, thematic exhibition pavilions. From the beginning, the commission members shared a belief that the buildings should not reinterpret past architectural forms – as had been done at earlier fairs, such as Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—but should instead reflect new, modern ideas, as well as suggest future architectural developments. Because

1705-641: The encyclopedia was available to 200 homes in Columbus, Ohio in 1980, as part of an experiment sponsored by OCLC . A year later, the text was available to subscribers of The New York Times Information Bank, the Dow Jones News/Retrieval and CompuServe . Arête Publishing's interactive version, including illustrations, video and audio stored on videodisk was shown at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1982. Grolier published

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1760-473: The entire debt paid by the time the fair closed in 1934. For the first time in American history, an international fair had paid for itself. In its two years, it had attracted 48,769,227 visitors. According to James Truslow Adams 's Dictionary of American History , during the 170 days beginning May 27, 1933, there were 22,565,859 paid admissions; during the 163 days beginning May 26, 1934, there were 16,486,377;

1815-519: The entries were aligned with what students studied, from kindergarten to high school. In 1933, World Book exhibited at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. In 1945, World Book became the property of Field Enterprises . In 1952, World Book moved its office into the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. In 1962, World Book published its first edition of Year Book . In 1963,

1870-660: The exhibition buildings. The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held at Comiskey Park (home of the Chicago White Sox ) in conjunction with the fair. In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000 , and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes, called

1925-468: The fair to the other. One description of the fair noted that the world, "then still mired in the malaise of the Great Depression , could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology". Fair visitors saw the latest wonders in rail travel, automobiles, architecture and even cigarette-smoking robots. The exposition "emphasized technology and progress,

1980-504: The fair. There were more than a thousand cases, resulting in 98 deaths. Joel Connolly of the Chicago Bureau of Sanitary Engineering brought the outbreak to an end when he found that defective plumbing permitted sewage to contaminate drinking water in two hotels. Originally, the fair was scheduled only to run until November 12, 1933, but it was so successful that it was opened again to run from May 26 to October 31, 1934. The fair

2035-468: The fairgrounds was on new man-made land that was owned by the state and not the city, the land was initially free from Chicago's strict building codes, which allowed the architects to explore new materials and building techniques. This allowed the design and construction of a wide array of experimental buildings, that eventually included large general exhibition halls, such as the Hall of Science (Paul Cret) and

2090-444: The fairgrounds. Held on a 427 acres (1.73 km ) portion of Burnham Park , the $ 37,500,000 exposition was formally opened on May 27, 1933, by U.S. Postmaster General James Farley at a four-hour ceremony at Soldier Field . The fair's opening night began with a nod to the heavens. Lights were automatically activated when the rays of the star Arcturus were detected. The star was chosen as its light had started its journey at about

2145-540: The fairgrounds. These included the earliest catenary roof constructed in the United States, which roofed the dome of the Travel and Transport Building (Bennet, Burnham and Holabird) and the first thin shell concrete roof in the United States, on the small, multi-vaulted Brook Hill Farm Dairy built for the 1934 season of the fair. From June to November 1933, there was an outbreak of amoebic dysentery associated with

2200-402: The history of Chicago. In the planning stages, several African American groups from the city's newly growing population campaigned for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable to be honored at the fair. At the time, few Chicagoans had even heard of Point du Sable, and the fair's organizers presented the 1803 construction of Fort Dearborn as the city's historical beginning. The campaign was successful, and

2255-538: The modernistic Federal Building. These were also printed in separate souvenir sheets as blocks of 25 (catalog listings 728–31). In 1935 the sheets were reprinted (Scott 766–67). From October 2010 through September 2011, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s . This exhibition prominently featured

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2310-591: The neoclassical themes used at the 1893 fair. One famous feature of the fair were the performances of fan dancer Sally Rand . Hal Pearl then known as "Chicago's Youngest Organist" and later "The King of the Organ" was the official organist of the fair. Mary Ann McArdle and her sister Isabel (from the UK) performed Irish Dancing. Other popular exhibits were the various auto manufacturers, the Midway (filled with nightclubs such as

2365-402: The official state bird and tree; each President of the United States gets a very distinctive look with an oversized portrait, a timeline and significant historical events that occurred during that president's administration. In 1937, World Book published its first international edition. In 1962, World Book produced a braille edition, which filled 145 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages. It

2420-522: The reintroduction of the Packard Twelve . An enduring exhibit was the 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition that demonstrated modern home convenience and creative practical new building materials and techniques with twelve model homes sponsored by several corporations affiliated with home decor and construction. Marine artist Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein painted twelve murals for the Navy's exhibit in

2475-520: The text-only 1985 CD-ROM The Electronic Encyclopedia from Grolier , based on the Academic American Encyclopedia , which comprised 30,000 entries and 9 million words. In 1990, when it was called The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia (1988–1991), still pictures were added. This evolved into the 1992 The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia , later named the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia . The CD-ROM version features

2530-533: The time of the previous Chicago world's fair—the World's Columbian Exposition —in 1893. The rays were focused on photoelectric cells in a series of astronomical observatories and then transformed into electrical energy which was transmitted to Chicago. The fair buildings were multi-colored, to create a "Rainbow City" as compared to the "White City" of Chicago's earlier World's Columbian Exposition . The buildings generally followed Moderne architecture in contrast to

2585-697: The visit of the German airship depicting (l to r) the fair's Federal Building, the Graf Zeppelin in flight, and its home hangar in Friedrichshafen , Germany. This stamp is informally known as the Baby Zep to distinguish it from the much more valuable 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps (C13–15). Separate from this issue, for the Fair the Post Office also printed 1 and 3 cent commemorative postage stamps , showing respectively Fort Dearborn and

2640-494: The work. Grolier acquired the encyclopedia in 1982. It has also been published under the names Grolier Academic Encyclopedia , Grolier International Encyclopedia , Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia , Macmillan Family Encyclopedia , Barnes & Noble New American Encyclopedia , and Global International Encyclopedia . An abridged version was known as the Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge . The full text of

2695-481: Was acquired by World Book Encyclopedia ; the company's Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia had ceased publication in 1997. Starting in the 2000s, the popularity of World Book declined, which caused the company to focus on its digital content and sales to academic institutions alongside children's trade publications. As of 2022, the only official sales outlet for the World Book Encyclopedia

2750-405: Was also published in electronic form for Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X . Electronic editions contained the entire text of the 22-volume World Book Encyclopedia , plus illustrations, video clips, 3D panoramic views, and sounds. The articles bring together a complete story, multimedia content, an article outline, research aids and links to related information. Online updates to articles and

2805-611: Was exhibited at the Century of Progress fair and where it won first place. After the close of the fair, the painting went on display at The Art Institute of Chicago where it was unveiled by Eleanor Roosevelt on July 10, 1934. The painting was on display at the Art Institute until its purchase by the Polish Women's Alliance on the museum's behalf. The U.S. Post Office Department issued a special fifty-cent Air Mail postage stamp, ( Scott catalogue number C-18) to commemorate

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2860-399: Was financed through the sale of memberships, which allowed purchases of a certain number of admissions once the park was open. More than $ 800,000 was raised in this manner as the country was in the Great Depression . A $ 10 million bond was issued on October 28, 1929, the day before the stock market crashed . By the time the fair closed in 1933, half of these notes had been retired, with

2915-457: Was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition. The encyclopedia is designed to cover major areas of knowledge uniformly, but it shows particular strength in scientific, technical, historical and medical subjects. World Book, Inc.

2970-482: Was founded in Chicago by publishers J. H. Hansen and John Bellow, who realized that existing encyclopedias were off-putting to readers. In 1915, they enlisted the help of Michael Vincent O'Shea, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin . The first edition of The World Book Encyclopedia was published (as simply The World Book ) in 1917, by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company. "As

3025-448: Was the first encyclopedia in braille. The project was mainly an effort in goodwill, for the company did not see its way clear to selling enough copies of the set to cover production costs. Eventually, all sets of the braille edition were donated to several institutions for the blind. In 1964, the company also published a large-print edition. In 1990, World Book first became available electronically through text-only CD-ROMs . In 1995,

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