Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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These are the first contract negotiations the bakers have made with the University as members of H.U.E.R.A. Until May 5 they were with A.F. of L. Local 186 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association...
Above the Pulpit. As the days went by, even that hope began to fade. Local investigators seemed to be getting nowhere; the FBI was asked to send an agent from Washington to help. His arrival gave birth to a spate of rumors: the eyeballs of the dead guard were being flown to Washington because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying...
...Northwest Territories just below the Arctic Circle. One striking fact was soon evident: though infants under three got polio just as older children and adults did, none of the infants suffered the devastating paralytic stage of the disease. And the infants up to three years old, following local Eskimo custom, were still being nursed at their mothers' breasts...
...three or four circuits instead of the 200 or so that connect comparable cities in the U.S. To make up for this lack, the Russians use high-frequency radio. U.S.S.R.-wide broadcast hookups, much needed for the Kremlin's round-the-clock pep talks, are sent out to local stations over the air instead of over land-line circuits...
Much was to be said and written about Grant's drinking. Toping was common enough in Grant's home town (if a man failed to get drunk at least three or four times a year, he "could hardly maintain his standing in the community, or in the local churches"). But Lewis shows that Grant himself was no habitual drunkard. Married after the Mexican War to Julia Dent, a Missouri plantation belle and the love of his life, Sam Grant was soon separated from her by Army transfer to the gold-struck Pacific Coast. There, among raging prices...