Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the first heading, Slichter included such things as pension plans, unemployment compensation, and the large expenditures by federal, state, and local governments...
...guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...
...even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...
...Judge Tamm in the Covert case and the Supreme Court in its Toth decision suggested a possible solution to the dilemma. The Congress, they said, could enact legislation giving the U.S. civil courts jurisdiction over certain civilians abroad who are exempted, by treaty or otherwise, from the jurisdiction of local courts. As a Defense Department spokesman said last week, in referring to the armed forces dependents and employees overseas: "They are U.S. citizens and we cannot leave them free to go their merry way with no accountability. We want all our people accountable somewhere...
...Akron, 2,000 trade unionists helped raise $2,387,243, in the biggest United Fund campaign in local history. In Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, at the height of the 1955 Torch Drive, four girls, escorted by armed Brinks' guards, dumped $1,471,319 on the speakers' table at a fund-raisers' luncheon. The money was the joint contribution of 66,647 General Motors employees ($1,096,319) and the company itself...