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Announcements. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1919. 
products.  The  industries  will  be  grouped  and  permanent  exhibits 
will  be  made  on  eight  spacious  floors,  each  floor  having  approxi- 
mately 60,000  square  feet  of  space.  The  remainder  of  the  building 
(the  four  lower  floors)  will  be  utilized  for  the  annual  expositions 
which  have  made  the  building  famous,  such  as  the  Automobile 
Show.  Motor  Boat  Show.  Flower  Show,  Electrical  Exposition, 
Chemical  Exposition,  Hotel  Men's  Exposition,  etc. 
Permanent  exhibits  of  products  of  the  more  important  industries 
will  be  opened  beginning  October  15.  The  [Merchants  and  Manu- 
facturers Exchange  has  established  foreign-  connections  for  export 
business  in  every  important  city  of  the  world,  and  manufacturers, 
jobbers,  retail  dealers,  and  the  thousands  of  foreign  buyers  un- 
doubtedly soon  will  regard  Grand  Central  Palace  as  the  world's 
great  trade  center  and  will  make  it  their  headquarters  when  visiting 
New  York.  Looking  forward  to  this  the  management  will  establish 
club  rooms,  conference  rooms,  office  facilities,  etc.,  to  increase  the 
foreign  buyers'  comfort  while  in  the  metropolis. 
Never  before  has  there  been  such  a  permanent  exchange  con- 
ducted along  international  lines  which  will  give  the  American  manu- 
facturer an  opportunity  to  come  into  direct  contact  with  the  domestic 
and  foreign  buyer.  Some  of  the  industries  represented  will  occupy 
an  entire  floor,  such  as  The  International  Farm  Tractor  and  Imple- 
ment Exchange,  the  International  Hardware  and  Homefurnishings 
Exchange,  which  will  be  among  the  first  to  be  opened,  on  the  sixth 
and  seventh  floors  respectively.  Other  enterprises  under  way  for 
other  floors  are  a  permanent  Mining  [Machinery  Exposition,  a  Rail- 
way Equipment  Exposition,  Textile  Display,  Printing  Trades 
Exhibit,  etc.  The  Farm  Tractor  Exchange  and  the  Hardware  Ex- 
change will  open  on  October  15,  1919.  The  plans  of  the  Merchants 
and  [Manufacturers  Exchange  are  decidedly  elaborate,  and  in  a 
number  of  ways  they  will  afford  a  service  to  the  manufacturer, 
jobber  and  dealer  which  has  never  been  possible  under  the  usual 
systems  of  merchandizing. 
Through  its  wide  representation  in  other  countries  the  exchange 
will  make  its  proposition  known  to  every  foreign  buyer  before  he 
sails  for  America  and  acquaint  him  with  the  value  of  the  service  of 
the  new  enterprise,  while  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  the  fact 
that  the  building  is  so  well  known  leaves  no  doubt  that  it  will  be  the 
mecca  of  thousands  of  domestic  dealers  and  jobbers. 
