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Show Columbia Steel Plans $250,000 Exhibit at Fair SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 A display costing a quarter of a million dollars will be the United States Steel Corporation's contribution to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, it was announced today. A contract reserving 10,830 square feet of exhibitor space in the Building of Mines, Metals and Machinery waB signed yesterday yester-day by Ambrose N. Diehl, president presi-dent of Columbia Steel company. West Coast subsidiary of the nation's na-tion's leading producers of steel. It is one of the largest contracts signed with the exposition, the rental being estimated at $86,-640. $86,-640. The appropriation for $250,000 to cover the cost of installing the steel corporation's exhibit does not include $100,000 already subscribed sub-scribed by the Columbia Steel Company to the finance campaign now being conducted .by the exposition. ex-position. ' Bridge Is Monument The Building of Mines, Metals, and Machinery in which the United States Steel corporation subsidiaries will house their exhibit ex-hibit is under construction at the present time, and when completed com-pleted will stand at the southwest south-west corner of Treasure Island. It will be adjacent to the main, entrance to the exposition grounds and will face the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Here will be displayed the manufacturing operations and products of steel. Just what design the exhibit will take was not disclosed by Diehl. "Our largest exhibit, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, is already on display," Diehl said. "We are proud to have been the builders of the great bridge which will serve as portals of the Golden Gate International Exposition Ex-position and over which millions of visitors to 'Treasure Island' will pass. "By our participation In the 1939 exposition we are reaffirming reaffirm-ing our faith in the growth and industrial expansion of the West." |