Word: township
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...solution could be a move to Bloom Township, Ohio, a small farming community (pop. 3,500), set in rolling corn country twelve miles outside Columbus...
...township has no college, but it does incorporate a tiny hamlet called Lithopolis, and that is all it needs. The place is the home of the Wagnalls Memorial, a small foundation that hands out scholarships to all comers-and wishes, in fact, that more would come...
...late Mabel Wagnalls Jones in honor of her parents, Adam W. Wagnalls, a Lithopolis boy who co-founded the Funk & Wagnalls publishing firm in 1877, and his wife Anna. When Mabel Jones died in 1946, she bequeathed $2.5 million to provide scholarships for any and all Bloom Township youths who could complete four years at one of the two high schools in the area and wanted to go on to higher education. Today the fund's officers manage an investment portfolio whose value has grown to $7.5 million-more than enough to make good on the standing Wagnalls Memorial...
...Haryana is hardest hit; it has no generating capacity of its own, and since last year has been forced to reduce its power consumption by a total of 60%. Between Feb. 1 and March 30, power was shut off completely 19 times in Haryana's Faridabad industrial township, causing layoffs of 60,000 workers at a time; layoffs in the entire state totaled 200,000. Haryana industrialists fear outbreaks of violence among unemployed workers, who have considerable reason for feeling frustration. They are trying to cope with a 21% inflation rate on the 50% of normal wages that they...
...many consumers inflation is prompting a reluctant renaissance of pioneer frugality. Mrs. F. Dale Lah of Hampton township, Pa., has begun baking her own bread with store-bought frozen dough and getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking...