Word: smog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lies thick and russet-green under the early sun. Because most St. Louis furnaces use Southern Illinois soft coal that burns cheaply, gaseously, smokily, because St. Louis has 160,000 chimneys, because fog rising from Mississippi River lowlands combines with smoke to create harsh, gritty, lung-injuring, bitter-tasting "smog," St. Louis' smoke problem is the worst in the U. S., costs the city and its home owners some $19,000,000 yearly for new wallpaper, laundering, artificial lighting, repainting...