Word: localized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up for the benefit of local monopolies. (Arnold cites the fact that the plumbing in the magnificent $10,000,000 Department of Justice building is arbitrarily ruled not good enough for private homes in some cities...
Last week the air was filled with straws in the political wind, blowing in all directions. Gusty or strong, or just an off-year breeze, the wind ebbed and eddied over Ohio, California, the cities of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Although local crosscurrents were set up, the general direction was Right, the temperature generally warmer...
...military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same as that for Leeds or Rosyth or Dover or anywhere else; i.e., Lloyd's thinks that the attack, when it comes, may be general, not just local showers...
...blaze in the blue-blood hot-house caused more excitement at the Hasty Pudding dance and across the street in the Lampoon, where editors and graduate editors were revelling, than it did among the local smoke-eaters...
...November issue the Harvard Progressive maintains a precise balance between local ware and the world's wars by printing two articles on Harvard problems and two on the world's affairs, while a fifth occupies both territories by means of an examination of Harvard's transition toward the martial spirit in 1914-1915. As a whole the issue reaches a high standard both in the breadth and significance of its material and in the vigorous fashion in which it is presented...