Word: polk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bureau of the Census, which fans out across the land every ten years to poll every living American, may well be the biggest official collector of statistics in the world. But a family-owned firm, R. L. Polk & Co. of Detroit, probably stands as the No. 1 private data gathering outfit. It regularly touches the lives of some 100 million Americans-even if only a small fraction of them know the company by name...
...every time a recall campaign is launched, certified letters go out to all owners of suspect cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers and licensing bureaus. It goes this far: last year G.M. and Polk, toward the end of an Oldsmobile cam paign, narrowed the field of unaccounted-for cars to three...
...question arose in the case of Army SP4 Clayton Anderson, a 14-year veteran who went AWOL while stationed at Fort Polk, La., in November 1964. Anderson turned himself in on February 10, 1967, and was eventually found guilty of "unauthorized absence." But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the statute of limitations for prosecution of an unauthorized absence is two years-except "in time of war." Congress, said Anderson's lawyers, has yet to declare war. The peacetime statute of limitations had run out before their client was tried. Therefore he should be freed...
...Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, James Knox Polk and Woodrow Wilson...
Anti-Johnson forces scored large majorities in Iowa's cities. They won in Iowa City, Waterloo, Dubuque, Council Bluffs, Davenport, and ran very strong in Polk County (Des Moines...