Word: local
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edge in the race." But if Harry Byrd was wrong, plenty of Virginians would have reason to worry. While rampaging in the U.S. Senate over the growing U.S. bureaucracy, Harry Byrd had managed in 25 years of rule to build up a Virginia bureaucracy of 73,174 state and local public employees-one for every 41 Virginians...
...Cadillacs. Even before he became a $12,500-a-year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
...last two summers Drs. Albert W. Bellamy and Kermit Larson, of the University of California at Los Angeles, have been working with a party of twelve helpers in the region around Trinity. To calm local worries, they pretended that they were studying local plants and animals. Actually, they were estimating the biological effects of the atomic explosion. They collected over 600 different kinds of plants. They trapped a variety of animals and examined them for radioactivity and possible organic changes. They measured the radioactivity of the soil over a wide region...
...atom-blasted area. The crater itself is thick with tumbleweeds and lively grasshoppers. There are rattlesnakes, lizards, pack rats and mice in the vicinity-none of them, apparently, the worse for their hot habitat. A cottontail rabbit has a home in the crater itself. The antelope (which local stories said had been frightened into Mexico) are back in the great arid valley...
...almost half of the nation's 98 biggest production centers, unemployment had already mounted to 7% or more of the local population. "In some cases it has become an acute problem," reported Employment Security Director Robert C. Goodwin. "The labor market has fluctuated since last November . . . largely [toward] higher rates of unemployment...