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Last week came the news that fluorine is to be tried out with whole towns as guinea pigs. Under the auspices of the New York State and Ontario Health Departments, Newburgh, N.Y. (pop. 32,000) and Brantford, Ont. (pop. 32,000) will soon have fluorine added to their water supplies at the rate of one part of fluorine to a million of water. The experiment will run ten years. Though adding fluorine to water is cheap (about $1,200 a year), these are the first towns...
Checking of results will be done on school children. To provide a control group for Newburgh, the town fathers of Kingston, 32 miles to the north, have promised to forgo fluorine for the ten years. Newburgh and Brantford ought in the end to rate somewhere between Galesburg, Ill. (1.5 parts natural fluorine to a million of water) where school children average two and a half cavities each, and Michigan City, Ind. (0.5 to a million) where children have an average of ten cavities apiece...
...Kingdom. In Springfield, Mo., a painted merry-go-round horse galloped loose, jumped a fence into a fair ground. In Portland, Ore., a brainy greyhound at a dog track figured things out, took a short cut across the center, caught the mechanical bunny coming head on, won retirement. In Brantford, Ont, the local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find...
...first million in seven years and began to expand. First he bought up the old Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel so much that he never spent a night in a Pullman car. So Gowanda became the U. S. glue capital...
Typical of nothing is the founder, president, general manager and mechanical genius of this 48-year-old system-leathery, quixotic, aging (65) William James Moore. By geography and heredity Phoneman Moore was addicted to telephones. He was born in Alexander Graham Bell's home town of Brantford, Ontario. His cousin was Elisha Gray, co-inventor of the telephone. Not long after leaving Oberlin College in 1892 he patented an improved telephone transmitter, set about manufacturing it, built telephone lines, organized his own system. Today it grosses some $5,000 a month...