Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of Claverly were carried-over hell-raisers from another era which Jim remembers: the years of prohibition. Jim Seniors place was up on the Hill between Concord and Huron Avenues, doing a brisk food business near the then-buzzing Harvard Observatory. Old Cronin kept his hands off the local moonshine trade, and Cambridge presented him with its first liquor license when the dry years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch...
...birth-right. You can be sure that all over the nation and up in Canada, and in fact Europe, teens will be in spirit walking into that court room with Alan Freed, ready to face the music as it were and holding our heads high too. Of course loyal local teens will show up for his in-person appearance to cheer him on. Watch these columns for a further announcement regarding this matter of importance to each and every guy and girl...
...they hit electrons, and the impact bumps the electrons up to high velocities. The electrons do not move faster than light in a vacuum (186,000 m.p.sec., the Einsteinian speed limit of the universe), but they do move faster than light in water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit, the electrons are "fined" a part of their energy, which shows up as Cherenkov radiation. Something analogous happens when a ship moves on the sea's surface. If the ship's speed exceeds that of the waves, as it usually does, some of the ship...
Almost every Latin American country boasts its own airline, and some have two or three. Most of the carriers are not members-as are Pan Am and Panagra-of the International Air Transport Association, which taboos price warfare. The local airlines set fares as they please, often undercut Pan Am or Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami...
...Florence can now compete for loans far from home, perhaps even in New York, where, he concedes, he was born. (His father left that outlandish birthplace to open an East Texas grocery when Florence was an infant.) Raised in the hamlet of Rusk, Florence began by sweeping out the local bank for $15 monthly, at 24 became president of another tiny bank in nearby Alto and later the town's mayor. When a customer asked him to handle a $40,000 purchase of stock in Dallas' Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., Florence got Guaranty to deposit the money...