Word: june
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Sirs: That's all applesauce about no flies or mosquitoes where the Coolidges are vacationing because it's above the 3,500-foot elevation (TIME, June 20, p. 5, last col.). There's a big grizzly mounted and some pictures in the Smithsonian Institution that prove it. The pictures show where the bear was killed by Pete Peterson, Cascade mountains, elevation, 7,000. The pictures also show on the grizzly, not 15 minutes dead, FLIES-LOTS OF 'EM. Farther east you go, the worse the flies are. As for mosquitoes, they...
Sirs: TIME has been on my list of magazines ever since I got the first copy several years ago. I do not like it to print misleading statements so call attention to TIME, June 20, p. 5. about flies and mosquitoes not being above 3,500 feet. The worst swarms of both I ever encountered were on Rabbit Ear Creek, tributary of Troublesome rivers, 20 or more miles north of Kremmling, Grand Co., Col., at an elevation of 8,000 feet...
...addition to the honorary degrees listed in TIME, June...
...because wholesalers had sold the majority of the fish to hotels for banquets and tête-à-tête parties of President Arthur H. Sapp and his 8,000 fellows in Rotary International-many of them with their wives, the "Rotary Anns"-assembled in annual convention (TIME, June...
John Daniel Hertz of Chicago, who stirred up a new demand for motor cars by permitting people who rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...