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...economies have hog-tied their health officers or because other communities have intensified their health activities and sur passed the failures. The twelve dropped cities are: Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Utica, N. Y., Harrisburg, Pa., Kenosha and Racine, Wis., Alhambra, Calif., Maplewood, Orange and West Orange, N. J., Monrovia, Calif...
...caused a store in Monrovia, Calif. to stick this sign in its window: "Pre-Technocracy Clearance Sale...
...CITIES UNDER 20,000) Chestertown. Md. Monrovia, Calif. *La Salle, Ill. Palo Alto, Calif. Lodi, Calif. Shorewood...
...years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
...consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government had placed on such metropolitan centres as Hongkong, Nanking and Shanghai, on Havana and Saigon, on Bombay and Madras...