Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress finally got around to its duty on measurements;'it backed into the subject by defining a meter in terms of inches, although it had never (and has not yet) defined an inch. Its definition of the meter was inaccurate in terms of the British inch, so when Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, head of the Office of Weights & Measures, defined in 1893 an inch as .02540005+ parts of a meter, the U.S. inch and the British inch came to differ by .000004. (This later got bargained out in an informal compromise...
From now on, all drivers who ignore their first meter violation tickets will find that a second offense brings a tow-truck to haul their cars to a garage. Last year, police checked Massachusetts cars at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and then summoned owners to be fined. However, they had no way of punishing out-of-state violators...
...night parking problem will be dealt with in the same way as the meter violations. Cars which are on the streets for more than an hour between 2 and 6 a.m. will be tagged, and men who do not report will find their cars towed away the next time...
...ordinances which cover meter violations and all-night parking have been on the statute books for some time; but it was not until the police compained to the Council that action was taken on the problem of "foreign" violators...
Registration is just about as easy as putting a nickel in a parking meter--and just as easy to neglect. Of course, the ill effects of forgetting the nickel usually turn up quickly in the concrete form of a parking ticket. Failure to register, with subsequent loss of voting rights, doesn't have such immediate consequences, but you pay for it in the end, and heavily...