Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said the baker: "Now I'll put some real dough in my bread...
...exports to the U.S., 90% of Colombia's, more than 80% of Brazil's and Guatemala's, lesser but still important percentages for half a dozen other countries. A steep price fall might bring on dangerous economic and political crises, with tempting opportunities for local strongmen or Communist mischiefmakers...
...country with a major legal issue. Is the U.S. Constitution, as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it, "what the judges say it is"? Or is it what it was when the states first ratified it in the generally accepted belief that it reserved to them their full "local rights...
...five-year program to boost the reserves of various state finance agencies that issue long-term bonds to help local districts with their school construction...
...million, five-year program to enable the Federal Government to match state grants to local communities...