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A federal judge on Monday refused to grant class-action status to lawsuits claiming that thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims were exposed to potentially toxic fumes while living in government-issued trailers.U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ruled that a batch of lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of plaintiffs against the federal government and several trailer manufacturers can t be handled as a class action because each person s claim is unique and must be examined individually.Government tests found elevated levels of formaldehyde in many of the trailers that housed victims of Katrina and Rita after those powerful hurricanes clobbered the
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I love old type specimen books. Any foundry, any period, it doesn ;t matter. They will have me hypnotized. But I don ;t usually linger at the title pages. Who would, really All the fun and exciting stuff comes after that: the impossibly small text faces, the spectacular
stanley water bottle display faces, all the sample uses variously dowdy and natty. Title pages from the specimen books of James Conner Sons United States Type Foundry 1891 and Farmer, Little 038; Co Type Founders 1882 So a long time went by before I not
stanley bottles iced a trend in specimens from New York foundries, particularly through the 19th century:
stanley en mexico Addresses from specimens by the Bruce, Conner, and Farmer foundries These addresses are pretty close together. No鈥攖hey ;re really close. Wait, some of these are less than a block apart. OK, hang on, stop. I need to figure this out. I re-read Maurice Annenberg Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs, tracked down business directories of the period, and spent too much time in Google Earth. But I was able to plot out the locations for every foundry that had been active in New York between 1828 the earliest records I could find with addresses to 1909 see below . All of the buildings have been demolished, and in some cases the entire street has since been erased. But a startling picture still emerged: New York once had a neighborhood for typography. Type foundries in New York, 1828-1909 But why were they concentrated here, and not scattered throughou
