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Hall of Free Enterprise

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The benefits of free competition are explained in a pavilion sponsored by the American Economic Foundation. View the International Area Map Locate It: F38 ECONOMICS ON STAGE. The seats in an oval theater slowly swivel to follow a 17 1/2-minute animated show called "Mr. Both Comes to Town," which dramatizes basic facts of economics, showing the individual as both producer and consumer. ECONOMIC GROWTH. A "tree" which revolves demonstrates factors of production, from natural resources through jobs and tools to the products man makes and buys. Visitors push a button to ask any of 120 questions on economics, and a machine prints the answers. OPPORTUNITIES. Franchise industries illustrate the prospects they offer the person who wants to start his own business. An animated flow chart dramatizes the U.S. economy. GRADUATE SEMINAR. Students may earn credits toward a master's degree by attending a course on "enterprise economics," given at the pavilion by the Adelphi University Business Institute. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book