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...scene from Metropolis was the sight that greeted a CRIMSON reporter as he stepped into the main room of the Elevated Power Plant on Boylston Street, now in the process of being torn down. Through the hazy air, filled with the fumes of acetylene torches and the odor of lubricating oil, the towering shapes of huge grey generators loomed above the forms of workmen, busily engaged in the job of stripping former dynamos of their essential parts...
...Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
Ordinarily, a good parrot is one whose vocabulary is extensive but not obscene; a bad parrot, one who curses or bites. Last week, all parrots were in bad odor. They were suspected of being responsible for psittacosis or "parrot fever" (TIME, Jan. 20), a somewhat mysterious and as yet rare malady which had suddenly become internationally conspicuous...
Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant, seized the aromatic mash, the steaming still...
Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...