Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida several years ago the Legislature, by constitutional amendment designed to attract new industries to the State, exempted a list of manufacturers from ad valorem taxes, State, county or local, for 15 years after establishment. Included were manufacturers of "steel vessels." Later Florida's Supreme Court ruled that tin can manufacturers were exempt because a tin can is a steel vessel tincoated. Last week County Attorney J. W. Cone of Tampa ruled the Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. not exempt from taxation because their RFC-financed, 10,000-ton drydock is not exclusively or chiefly used for the manufacture...
...from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...
...study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make the College move away, exclaiming: "What can any decent person think of a school that teaches Communism, free love...
Macy's insisted that it was all an experiment, a response to continual requests from out-of-town department stores whose patrons supposedly make many a trip to New York to stock up at Macy's. To give them a kind of room service and oblige local shopkeepers Macy's set up a new corporation, Supremacy Products, Inc.. under President Percy Selden Straus's eldest son, Ralph. To a selected store in each trading area Ralph stands ready to sell "Macy's Own" merchandise "price free," i.e., to be marked down...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...