Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random Harvest. In Tupelo, Miss., when shiny new garbage containers were installed in the downtown business district, garbage collectors had a hard day sorting the rubbish from the outgoing mail...
This week Candidate Thurmond would take his campaign as far north as the District of Columbia and the border state of Maryland...
Hurrying home, Wang put his best troops, under trusted General Wu Hua-wen, on a line defending the capital's most vital points-the main airfield, the railroad station and the commercial district, all outside the old city wall. Suddenly, on the fourth day of battle, Wu turned traitor, led some 8,000 of his men over into the Communist lines. Tsinan's outer defenses collapsed...
...Communists swarmed over Tsinan's business district, where Wang's reserve munitions were stored. Their plainclothes grenade squads blasted the Gate of Perpetual Safety and smashed into the last Nationalist stronghold...
Last week. Laval University made plans for a big change. A rally in Quebec's Coliseum launched a $10 million public subscription campaign to bring Laval up-to-date. The university would spread over an area of one square mile in the spacious St. Foye district. There would be white stone buildings, a swimming pool and broad reaches of campus. It would cost $100 million and the whole job would take 50 years. Premier Maurice Duplessis made the first move: a check for $2,000,000 from the province of Quebec...