Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty, archaic constitutional tax structure. Michigan, the nation's twelfth wealthiest state in terms of per capita income, collects about $1 billion in state taxes. But five-sixths of the revenues from the 3% sales tax-biggest income source-must be turned back to city and town governments and school districts. All gasoline tax revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police, the state mental health program, the state's unexpectedly high unemployment welfare payments (current unemployment: 340,000, or 11.5% of the work...
...Hunt. But one outsider heard the commotion. A nurse in a hospital, some 200 ft. from the jail, telephoned the town marshal, who called Sheriff W. Osborne Moody. Quickly Moody called his deputies, alerted the highway patrol, the city police. Soon a huge posse fanned out from Poplarville into the countryside of heavy woods crisscrossed with streams. Within a few hours, Mississippi's Governor James P. Coleman called...
PANAMA, April 30--National Guardsmen were ordered to move up to the town of Nombre de Dios today for the first full-scale attack on a band of Cuban-based invaders holed up inside. But they were called back to let a team of neutral observers get in first...
Nombre de Dios, an isolated town on the Caribbean coast only 20 miles from the Panama Canal, was siezed by the rebel mercenaries after they landed from Cuba on Sunday and marched 35 miles up the coast. The band now numbers 89 men and is reported armed with automatic weapons...
Save for Judas, those named for the Passion play sympathize with these outcasts. Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...