Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means is all school segregation in the Deep South, and last May's decision has been followed by many significant steps, most of them taken by local school boards. Among the changes...
Kansas, where nine cities have segregation under a local option law, is ready to comply with the Supreme Court. The segregated cities, such as Topeka. plan to integrate their schools over a two-year period...
Continuing a recent trend, the northeastern states showed heartening declines in polio case rates (see map). In the southeast, Florida stood out as a plague spot. California's total was boosted by the local epidemic in Los Angeles. In sparsely populated states, relatively few cases justified an epidemic rating-e.g., Wyoming with 98 and Nevada with 60. Most hopeful factor in the situation was the absence of severe polio outbreaks in most of the Middle West, which had been hard hit for several years. For the U.S. as a whole, statisticians figured that an individual's chance...
...thinking of asking Congress to police the coffee exchange more closely, possibly by putting it under the Commodity Exchange Authority, which could keep an eye on excess speculation. FTC also hopes to improve crop reporting by increasing U.S. agriculture attache staffs in Brazil, which check up on local forecasts with estimates of their...
...ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...