Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major overhaul of federal monetary policies, and is beyond the power of a provincial government. The payments now planned will help to drain off cash from an oil-enriched treasury that has already cut the province's debt to $90 million, financed large-scale grants to local schools and municipalities, and has built up a $347 million surplus. Some of the bonus money will also go to enrich the federal government, since tax authorities in Ottawa were prompt to rule that Alberta citizens will have to declare and pay federal income taxes on the money from Edmonton...
...Glass of Tequila. Fenton announced that he had indeed planned to rob the Americans, but that the job had been carried out by two local tourist guides. Quickly arrested, they protested innocence. Then came word that the bodies on the beach were those of two unidentified auto-accident victims. In jail Fenton was interviewed by a U.S. newsman, who gave him a glass of tequila to calm his nerves. Fenton broke the glass, slashed his wrists. Mercilessly, police grilled the remorseful travel agent far into the night-until at last he broke down, confessed in full. At week...
Last week, in Seattle and across the nation, long lines of men and women quickly got their polio shots as local medical societies waged an all-out campaign to inoculate everyone under 40 before the polio season sets in. Although the campaign came too late in many cities to do the most good (the safest protection requires two shots a month apart, followed by a third seven months later), any polio shot is better than none at all. And just a few months ago, the present campaign seemed impossible...
...Seattle it was soon decided that the only way to set up a successful program -backed by newspapers, radio and TV-was to make it free. To foot the bills the city's United Good Neighbors' Polio Trust Fund donated $185,000, the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave $30,000, and the county public health department agreed to pay for all vaccine used for persons under 20. Hoping to needle some 300,000 people in two weeks, the King County (Seattle) Medical Society rounded up 1,000 of its 1,200 members, plus...
...ready to read, don't force him. To its critics, it shares the blame for the fact that some Johnnies never seem to learn to read; its supporters give it credit for the fact that many more Johnnies can learn a useful trade in their local high school...