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...recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology at Yale University, suggested as a partial solution that automobile exhausts be extended from the horizontal position at the level of the axle to a vertical one discharging like a chimney at the height of seven or eight feet. He conducted...
...High heels for women are usual. Other cities show much better records. In Philadelphia and St. Paul, for instance, the averages are, for women, 5½ to 6; for men, 8 to 9. " The trouble with New Yorkers is that they are afraid to walk. They take taxi, streetcar, subway for a trip of a few blocks." The chiropodists pilloried the low-priced automobile as a doubtful blessing, causing many persons to take on weight, lose strength, develop weak feet. The doctors also demonstrated an apparatus for lengthening a shortened foot...
...pure science. He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill. Edison looks for all transportation and industry to be electrified: " You never saw a motorman tinkering around under his streetcar...