Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pondered enforcement methods, old Auditor Andrews had an auditor-like thought: always seek an independent source to check a man's figures. When he applied this principle to undertakers, he suggested that his men in one district try checking morticians' returns against burial reports at the local bureau of vital statistics. The first mortician investigated had failed to report $140,000 of income over several years...
ROUND TWO, 1946-49 The Local...
...brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial theme-"Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof-is wide as the world; but the university's own official title is still proudly local-Columbia University in the City of New York...
...farm surpluses, even in the form of gifts, is a tough job, despite the fact that many of the world's people are on the brink of starvation. At home and abroad, farmers and merchants are quick to protest cut-rate sales or giveaway programs that push down local prices. Accordingly, the surpluses have to be distributed outside normal trade channels.-In the U.S. the Agriculture Department expects to give away $170 million worth of surplus food this year to state welfare agencies and school-lunch programs. Now Washington is discussing plans to provide free food for similar programs...
FIVE & DIME oil boom is on at Seneca Lake in eastern Ohio since an auto dealer, wildcatting in his spare time, struck oil at 464 ft. So far, local businessmen have put down 30 wells, have 15 more adrilling, and leases on plots are going for as much...