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We are pleased to have with us today a man who were served with distinction in the administration of justice for more than twenty years and who is now leading the borough of Queens to ever widening prosperity I have the honor to present the borough president the honorable Mary oh it's a color yellow. Thank you Commissioner Cole may awaken to the mission of Moses Mr Morris Reverend clergyman a very distinguished guest here today and our fine audience to see this wonderful improvement in the space of a few days the bar of Queens will receive three space thrusts this and Lauds and or commented aviation center they met stadium that will be dedicated this afternoon and the opening of the World's Fair on the commission of Moses next Wednesday that will make the Barlow queens even more so all the center of the world and we certainly welcome the opportunity to have worldwide people come to this great bar or as a resident of this bar all for fifty three years and take you leave this immediate area and as one of the boys that partook of the recreational activities at North Beach one of the existed here I'm certain that I echo the statements and sentiments of all of the local residents and people that were here at that time when I say that we gladly yield to this wonderful development for greater public use in this augment of an expanded. 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It is a great pleasure to share with you of the tremendous pride we have the borough of Queens Tate and the little little the Guardia Airport terminal we compliment the into New Orleans School of the architects and in the years contract isn't craftsman who combined their efforts to rebuild this important terminal and the striking new control towers for a quarter of a century Look what Ford has stood among the world's leading airports now like the Baro Queens itself it is building for the future I recall well that both Mayor Waco and I when serving in the New York State Assembly in the late one nine hundred thirty S. when look Wadia for the first welfare in Flushing Meadow run a construction twenty five years ago the opening of this airport on the ferry drew national and international attention to Queens then largely a rural suburb of Manhattan from the competition I get at the Board of Estimate now it is no longer a rolled suburb since that time the growth of aviation has pace and to a great extent it promoted the dramatic growth of this borrowed our spot sleep populate a bar of twenty five years ago has blossomed with now having nearly two million residents once almost totally residential we have retained all residential character but now it's all right the monk the nation's top ten industrial centers Queens has been the fastest growing borrow in New York City and today we are proud to be the second largest county in New York State this growth parallels that of our two great queens airports Kennedy Airport and Laguardia Airport. And its largest single industry today one of every ten people employed in the bar of Queens war except look water will Kennedy International Airport those thirty five thousand people earning two hundred sixty three million dollars a year most of the pair of us spend within our Borel generating thousands of additional jobs and new income for the bar of queens without constantly expanding business and light in the industrial facilities and then creasing number of business travelers who fly into our airports are coming to call on firms located within all borrowed Not only do they spend millions of dollars here locally for accommodations food retail purchases transportation and employment they also come to know Queens is a thriving attracting Borro in which to work and live as we celebrate this airport's twenty fifth anniversary an exciting World's Fair in modern new facilities that look Wadia will once again focus attention on Chremes not content to stand pat on our past glory and achievement the airport I understand by nineteen seventy Look Wadia port alone to say nothing of going to get port will provide jobs for a Levon thousand people earning one hundred six million dollars a year. That we welcome we are welcoming in addition to the increased population that we will have. With progress however must come a solution to the problem of aircraft noise and residential communities near this airport yellow lines proposals to operate jets of water on the specified conditions and the port authorities action and granting such requests all reassuring evidence that the aviation industry will continue to consider the serious interest of the airport neighbors as look Wadia moves into the jet age my aviation committee will continue to cooperate to resolve this problem to the airlines and all those who will conduct their business at this great new web terminal I wish all possible success and to the millions of travelers will be arriving here I say welcome to the bar of Queens thank you. Thank you Judge Kerry yellow very close bar as we all know is The World of Tomorrow the New York World's Fair that will open on time next week many said that it couldn't be done but there was one man who said and kept on saying that it could and would open on April twenty second of course I referred to my old friend Bob. Sloan cold friends many of us here today watched with fascination with the emergence of a flying scar pattern the advent of August Susan magic sails and pilots of the purple twilight. Extension of runways to lift and cushion faster and faster ships and the cutlass facilities and devices which are mock the conversion of crude improvised cross road way stations to major at terminals boasting every convenience known to science the safety and comfort I used to visit the old North Beach Airport and all of water with its own of Bill a carry I turn around mover and builder an erstwhile city sanitation commissioner. One day when Bill was expression ending on his filling operations on the firm foundation underneath and boasting that the gates of hell would not prevail against his establishment we were intrigued to see a sixteen foot lamp post sink slowly before our eyes into the sand who isn't garbage and the spot wraps large enough to where our saddles leaping out of the core of last. Bill modern something profane and I was too polite to add to his chagrin. I guess Bill had the same experience and Panama nothing fazed him I grew up in the Kerry School of Public Works and I'm also past astonishment anything going to happen join the ever ready club and greet the unseen with a cheer an obscure period followed in which real estate people tried to consolidate North Beach homes airport by putting the Grand Central Parkway on the ground. I can remember flying out of the home zap bought with Howard Coleman and Clarence Chamberlain's excuse for a plane with a hole at my feet almost large enough to fall through and affording a terrifying view of Jackson Heights. Dam was the days that finally General sum of all not Bill Carey filled up a little audio with refuse trucks from over a temporary causeway from Rikers Island using relief labor and of samadhi informal high handed but eminently successful army engineer goon squad operation which had my eye on this guy's admiration. General some of it was quite a boy in my book his expressionless dog robbers learned from him that on the offices should not practice law ask for opinions and write letters for the files their job was to bring home the bacon in the candy box wrapped with ribbons are in a rag dragged through the god are but in any event to bring it home all bills majors became generals and live happily ever after when I recall with glee bill some of Bill is referenced to the distinguished bones are architect of the Guardia Airport who had never designed and they had time and all before was the mass send him to me to plan Idlewild in a lot of the pay for his services at La Guardia. I refused and braved the lightning of Fiorello as RAF's these are all in retrospect amusing aspects of public service calculated to add to the world as an adequate stock of this place or in other words there were always been funny things happening on the way to the fore. This the Guardia field reclamation was a twin of my own operation a leveling of the corona of the First World. Controlling sewage in the back. And providing the first in an adequate channel system leading into what will be forthcoming second World's Fair the finest Marina in the east I look I like to look at the bounty top it up at the Flushing Meadow meadow a marina to reflect on the romantic. Weather navigator was entirely at the mercy of the waters and when and before the engine annihilate the distance Waldemar and most of the air succeeded intrepid sailors but propelled by sail all Jap them is still invincible Meanwhile John F. Kennedy Airport successor of Idlewild grows a pace I was chairman of mellow waters committee to do the original acquisition hydraulic filling beach grass planting and road work which ended with a conveyance to the Port Authority the marrow drive decided it should be a by state operation Ferro kept increasing the size of the field and he was dead right about it but the bellowing of expansion orders was confusing yellow for speed and like the Walrus and the carpenter wept like anything to see such quantities of sand he never did understand why a seventy million cubic yards of sand twenty cents added up to fourteen million smackers. It would be about forty million today and saving like many all this is a credit to the little flower. Was one of the great things about the little flower. His determination to be ahead of the procession in deeds not words he had a flair for the Empire even having file of the great over Italy in World War one anything the flu appealed to him he would be delighted if he could see what is becoming of the field so aptly named in his honor. This new terminal gives a broad hint of what the ultimate Look water port will be somehow snatched from the real Taus subdivide urns and developers right on the East River in the very heart of the greater city contrary to all of textbooks a permanent safe harbor for flying ships the water port percents another illustration of the authority principle which unites public sponsorship and private enterprise in a working partnership with government and business that is one of the very few genuine inventions of modern political science bring us plenty of visitors and noiseless jets and accept off thanks for your cooperation and. Thank you Bob I now have the great privilege and honor ladies and gentlemen to resent the merit of the city of New York the honorable Robert F. Wagner. Long a friend of aviation the people of New York are greatly indebted to him. For his continuing interest and I'm failing support of the two major airports situated within and serving the great city of New York and the by state metropolitan area and the nation Mayor Wagner. Right much. Fellow commission is reverend clergy he says and Wadia. President Mike Carey L o five Moses backing Mr Warwick and ladies and gentlemen I am delighted to be able to join in the dedication of this imposing new hundred termino. Jet plan terminal for a plane AIDS the demands of this jet age have as we know made this building necessary this structure replaces the one which served the city of New York for a quarter of a century and I remember as a young Assemblyman being invited to the opening by then president of the city council in new beau Morris and I'm hopeful that this new facility will serve the needs of our city and of our country and of our visitors and of those who fly the planes and maintain them as well as the old terminal did at its peak innings in its time our world of the mid sixty's is in a sense the product of the airplane no single development has affected us more the repetitive with which we traverse incredible distances and the consequent closing of the distance gap between nations and continents result of course from the conquest of the air today most of us take this for granted and readily measure great distances in terms of hours of Jet flight time. Port is a testament to this new era a vital dynamic and therefore a fitting memorial to a man of the same character may have three irrelevant quality or it was his vision as we know of the great future of ad transportation which very secured for our city the proud type of air gateway to America it could have been another city we are fortunate that it was ours within two years of the opening of the ports Fiorello La Guardia's vision was justified and realize what he had became the busiest in the nation in nineteen forty an average of two hundred fifty planes per day landed and took off by nine hundred fifty seven this airport served an average of six hundred and eighty planes per day this was more than it's limited with this facility now a quarter of a century after the original opening I know we are all gratified to participate at the dedication of this great new terminal building and as mayor I am proud of this fine addition to New York City's facility and glad to take this opportunity to commend and express our appreciation of the Port of New York authority which has capability operate at this airport since one nine hundred forty seven in the interests of. Service the Port Authority has invested daily twice the original cost of constructing the airport over seventy nine million dollars for the continuing development of La Guardia Airport and I know it is a special honor and a great privilege for all of us to have with us here today a lady whom you've already met Mrs for you L.O.L. of Wadi of a civic leader in her own right. So you must share our pride in the fulfillment of mail and why do you dream a dream of growing commerce and travel and ever stronger links among all the peoples of the earth with the abiding hope that the fruits of greater contact will be greater cooperation and understanding among men everywhere. Thank you very much Mr Mair.