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As an indication of the effect increased attendance would have on revenues and expenditures, the following estimate shows revenues and expenditure figured on the basis of a one-year Fair with a 50,000,000 attendance, on which basis a surplus is shown:

[[Heading]]New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated
Estimate of Revenues and Expenditures
ON A BASIS OF 50,000,000 ATTENDANCE[[/heading]]

PRE-FAIR PERIOD
[[left-hand column]]
REVENUES
Admissions................$3,000,000
Rentals-Exhibitors........ 6,010,000
Rentals-Concessionaires... 1,845,000
Reimbursement for Services
  Rendered.................  525,000
Other Revenue..............   20,000
                        [[line to sum]]
                         $11,400,000 
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/left-hand column]]

[[right-hand column]]
EXPENDITURES
Construction costs, including buildings, transportation facilities, landscaping, utilities such as water, light, etc., Fair-owned exhibits and miscellaneous outside
  structures..............$28,516,700
Operating Expenses..........6,901,370
Interest, Insurance, etc. ..1,924,376
Other Financial Expense.......300,000
                         [[line to sum]]
                          $37,642,446
Less Revenues..............11,400,000
                         [[line to sum]]
Pre-Fair Period Deficit...$26,242,446
Plus Working Capital........1,587,000
AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY 
    DEBENTURE ISSUE.......$27,829,446
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/right-hand column]]

FAIR PERIOD
[[left-hand column]]
REVENUES 
Admissions ...............$30,750,000
Concessions-Participation.  5,850,000
Concessions-Fair-Owned....    325,000
Reimbursement for Services 
  Rendered................  1,520,000
Other Revenue.............    630,000
                         [[line to sum]]
                           39,075,000
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/left-hand column]]

[[right-hand column]]
EXPENDITURES
Operating Expenses..........9,983,147
Interest, Insurance, etc. ..  825,249
                         [[line to sum]]
                           10,808,396
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/right-hand column]] 

SUMMARY 
[[left-hand column]]
REVENUES
Pre-Fair..................$11,400,000
Fair...................... 39,075,000 
                         [[line to sum]]
Total..................... 50,475,000
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/left-hand column]] 

[[right-hand column]]
EXPENDITURES
Pre-Fair..................$37,642,446
Fair...................... 10,808,396
Post-Fair.................  1,000,000
                         [[line to sum]]
Total.....................$49,450,842
Less Total Revenues....... 50,475,000
                         [[line to sum]]
Surplus ..................$ 1,024,158
                  [[double line for total]]
[[/right-hand column]] 

If public interest should demand a continuance of the Fair into a second year, as was the case in Chicago, preliminary estimates, based upon attendance of 40,000,000 the first year and 24,000,000 the second, indicate that the two-year Fair would have a surplus of $8,269,555, as follows: 

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Transcription Notes:
Revenues and Expenditures headings repeated for each section for ease of understanding => Better would be to use brackets [[...]] for anything that isn't in the original text, to avoid any risk of confusion.