Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest local specimens of Charles Addams Victorian is the antique white building which houses the Harvard Furniture Company. Customers entering the Massachusetts Avenue store are confronted with an array of gingerbread cabinets and a pair of owl andirons with amber eyes. Like the exterior, the inside of the shop seems a memorial to the taste of the last century...
Nineteen states have already established flu advisory councils; the Red Cross is advertising home nursing courses especially for the feared onslaught; confused priority and quota systems for vaccine distribution are being mulled over by local and national health authorities; and a small vaccine black market is in operation...
...coordinated, might be able to improve the outlook even more. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Surgeon General's Office, however, show little desire to control the situation nationally. The latest pronouncement of the Public Health Service asks that vaccine production be geared to state and local quotas, rather than to a centralized distribution system. In effect, distribution will be governed not by a manufacturer's ability to produce but by the limited demand in his area. Thus, heavily populated areas with too few vaccine producers will not have access to the facilities of medical suppliers...
...employees of the Harvard Athletic Association voted 25-7 yesterday not to join Local 254 of the A.F.L. Building Service Employees' International Union. They will continue to be represented by the Harvard University Employees' Representative Association...
...situation has been further complicated by the uncomfortably narrow, crooked character of many local streets. Over half of Cambridge's streets are 27 feet or less wide. On many of these parking on both sides and two way traffic is permitted. Assuming that the average car is six feet three inches wide, and that it is parked within one foot of the curb, this leaves about thirteen feet for two cars whose combined width is twelve and one half feet to pass...