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English: Title: "You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A feature of the twenty-eighth National Conference on Weights and Measures which opened in Washington today was display of the many parking meters now in use throughout the country. they range from 1cent to 5cents allowing the parker 20 minutes to half an hour. 49,500 meters are now in use in 56 cities. R.E. Gould, chief of the time section of the National Bureau of Standards, is pictured examining the display, 5/31/38 Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
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united states · district of columbia · washington (d.c.) · glass negatives
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District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
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Glass negatives

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