Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a court-appointed receiver and Judge Watkins keeping eyes on him, Lias has become a grudgingly effective overseer. Since 1952, Wheeling Downs has paid $4,000,000 in federal, state and local taxes and provided its stockholders a $50,000 dividend. Net worth of the racing association has climbed from $202,000 to $386,000; working cash has multiplied from $12,000 to $342,000. The Internal Revenue Service, which balked at Lias' offers to settle his tax bill-first for $500,000 and later for $1,600,000-makes no apology for allowing Wheeling Downs to operate...
...issue was one which has brought trouble to many corners of the British Commonwealth: How far can the local population's just demands for independence be met without jeopardizing the colony's strategic value? Red China has been wooing and winning Singaporeans. Although there are only 3,000 known, hardcore Communists on the island, they maintain solid control through youth groups and labor unions. The Communists have been whooping up local demands for independence and scoring possession of the magic word merdeka (freedom...
...record the varsity has other assets which will weigh heavily in the balance of its decision to compete against this competition. A Harvard eight has never before represented the United States in the Olympics, a fact which gives the oarsmen a natural desire to further the name of local oarsmanship...
...proposal come from the Housemasters, who feel that such a plan would hurt the house system. One of the basic premises of the existing system is that by collecting undergraduates to eat, a valuable mental collision is generated, which is lost by those who eat in clubs or local restaurants. Undeniably this is a potent argument against the change as it applies to lunch and dinner, not to breakfast. Certainly most students who miss the morning meal do so in order to stay in bed rather than to find better company or menus. If the Council's report at least...
Through the years local gourmets have made a variety of suggestions for relieving chronic indigestion and starvation, ranging from abolition to Hayes-Bickford. This year a low ebb in gastronomic satisfaction precipitated another investigation, by well-meaning, if hungry Student Council Members...