Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of feeding doughnuts to cab horses and leading a "back to nature" movement along the main stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being...
...Local college baseball gets under way this afternoon when the Varsity nine meets Northeastern on Soldiers Field...
When the picture opened last week, Governor Frank Finley Merriam of California proclaimed Gold Week, and Sacramento held a warm-up for its 1939 Hometown Jubilee. There was a Governor's "Sutter's Gold Ball." Carl Laemmle and entourage arrived in five private cars. Local merchants displayed themselves in 1849 costumes and sideburns...
...members get up to 21 days bed, board, examinations (including Xray) and treatment in a hospital, if their doctors order it. Patients pay their doctors separately. If a member has an accident anywhere in the U. S. or Canada outside the New York area and is taken to a local hospital, the New York service pays part of his hospital bill. A woman must pay premiums for at least ten months, as Mrs. Laibson did, before she can get her obstetrical bills paid...
...form, Eastern Gas & Fuel expanded with curious logic. At first the coke plants were constructed for other companies but as soon as Koppers Co. started to build them for itself, it had to find an outlet for the gas. Though most Koppers units sell gas to local utilities, the gas companies serving Boston and its suburbs were bought outright. To use some of the coke it has a blast furnace near Boston. To insure supplies of coal West Virginia mines were acquired. To keep the mines operating efficiently, coal was marketed directly without coking it. To carry the coal...