Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...costs, the state supplies another 25 percent, and the city is responsible only for the other 25 percent. The professor expressed his belief that, with the support of interested corporation building small planes, the landing strip would start paying its own way almost immediately, with no burden on the local citizens...
West Germany, with more than twice the population of East Germany, has only about 100,000 state and local police, who are armed with clubs and non-automatic revolvers, receive no military training...
...most parties, however, had done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...
Three weeks ago Mrs. Yamada, who is president of the National Association of Mothers' and Children's Clubs, carried her crusade into a meeting of the association's local chapter in the city of Isezaki. To Isezaki's clubwomen Mrs. Yamada shrilled, "No concubine is fit to be a member of a women's organization." Taking Mrs. Yamada at her word, the respected chief secretary of the Isezaki chapter, 39-year-old Nami Marata, remorsefully decided to resign. Nami, as everyone in the Isezaki chapter knew, is the mistress of a wealthy merchant...
...venture made Asa Mercer a local hero, helped win him election to the territorial legislature without an opposing vote, and inspired him to try the stunt all over again a year later. But this time he had his troubles. Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted...