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Pro-cool And Anti-cool

July 2024
1min read

Re “The Air-Conditioned Century” in your August/September issue: J. Frank Dobie, that great Texan man of letters, once wrote: “Air conditioning ruined Texas. It made it possible for Yankees to live down here.” How true, how true!

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