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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, some 20,000 parking meters made by half-a-dozen companies at about $58 apiece have sprouted along the streets of 40-odd U. S. cities, among them: Dallas, Houston and El Paso, Tex.; Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Providence, R. I.; Kansas City, Mo.; Macon, Ga.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Scranton, Pa. Last week the Denver city council voted to install them and Baltimore was considering it. Many cities are enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities...
Other regions that have had lesser "polio" epidemics this year: Michigan, home of Dr. Max Peet of the University of Michigan, who has advocated as a polio-preventive spraying the noses of children with a solution of zinc sulphate (TIME, July 5); Buffalo, which has posted guards along the 35-mile Niagara frontier on the chance that the epidemic was imported from, Ontario; Toronto and Kingston, Canada, which have postponed opening of school and advised parents to keep their children away from the Canadian National Exhibition to open at Toronto next week...
...subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
Rollicking along a New Jersey road one dawn three years ago, President George D. Strohmeyer of Childs Co. (restaurants) and some elated friends spied a sign: Maridell Inn. They tore the sign down, made a bonfire of it. Caught in the act by a policeman, they then split a fine of $75 plus $19.50 costs. This week Childs's President Strohmeyer again made news with a restaurant sign. This time, instead of tearing down an old one, he hung a new one: The Host, Incorporated...