Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the federal collector was busy, state and local taxes were also pouring in. The nation's total estimated 1951 tax bill: $73,593,339,429, an average of $468 for every man, woman & child...
...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...
...Police of Carteret, N.J., notified that four steel-enclosed radium pellets worth $200,000 had vanished from a flatcar at a local boiler works, wasted no time hunting down the criminals. Observing a kids' shack near by, they checked schools and churches, found that three boys had lifted the valuable pellets, thinking they were fishing sinkers. To the cops' relief, the boys had hidden the boodle under a sidewalk almost immediately, thus escaping possible lethal radiation burns...
Rumors of Rebellion. The Strauss party carried the fight to the country. Strongarm squads of both sides brawled in the streets and there were rumors that would not be downed of rebellion and civil war. "The time has come," wrote an Orange Free State Boer to his local newspaper, "when all burghers should be armed . . . with a rifle and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Who knows what lies ahead?" A German South African who had fled from Hitler thought he knew...
That periodic visitor to the local political scene, the Democratic Club, made another appearance at the University this week and expects official recognition within the next few days...