Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy booming, he explained again, demand for credit tends to outrun supply, so interest rates push upward. For the Government to try to hold the rates down would be to follow "the road to inflation." The oft-raised claim that tight money presses unfairly on small business and local government is "debatable," Martin argued. Furthermore, frustrated borrowers "would suffer infinitely more from further inflationary bites" than they do from temporary postponement of borrowing. In fact, said Martin, if he had it all to do over again he would have laced up bank credit even tighter, beginning back in late...
...from front to back. At the Empire Theater stop, six whites boarded the bus. The driver, as usual, walked back and asked the foremost Negroes to get up and stand so the whites could sit. Three Negroes obeyed-but Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who had once been a local secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, did the unexpected. She refused...
Before the Very Important Hockey Game at the Arena last night, local sportswriters commented that the winning team should be regarded as the best from the New England area...
...Crimson defeated B.C., 5-2, to win the finals of the holiday tourney in their last meeting, but too much has happened in local hockey affairs since that contest for it to have any real meaning...
Even so, state courts are hesitant to take actions which might tend to weaken the power of local school committees, or to set themselves up as "super school committees." Shaplin is by no means certain that his group will win its case, but he has a strong conviction that the school committees have too much power. At present the Dean has begun a survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served...