I recall my mother-in-law's story of when she and a couple of her friends sat in her lliving room in late summer of 1936 in St. Louis. All were at least 8 months pregnant.
My father-in-law went out every morning to buy a great block of dry ice. This was then placed in a wash-tub, and the pregnant ladies spent the day enjoying the cooling breeze generated from the fan blowing across the dry ice!
1936 remains one of the hottest summers on record in St. Louis! My sister-in-law was born that September; she laughingly claims to remember it!
SWR
