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...years, St. Louis has choked in "smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...
...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...
...Smog: smoke...