Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surround the royal motorcade, shouting "Good on you, Liz and Phil!" She went to Ceylon even though nationalist agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors and accepted the homage of such local chieftains as the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv and the Och of Idoma...
...Communists insisted they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress leader, R. Sankaran: "We are prepared to discuss with the Communist government nothing but details of its resignation...
Fearful that the change might make less work for stereotypers, Leroy J. Selby, president of St. Louis Stereotypers Union No. 8, objected: "We have had these working conditions for over 35 years, and the publisher is trying to take them away." The walkout of his tiny local threw 3,000 out of work and left St. Louis without a daily newspaper...
...deal (as the union did with Bethlehem Steel Co. in 1949), McDonald asked for negotiations on an individual company basis. But the industry's team, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President Conrad Cooper, said it will not meet separately with the union's twelve local bargaining groups because it feels the only way to a contract is through top-level negotiations between the union and management four-man committees. If one thing emerged clearly last week it was that union-and-management jockeying for public support through advertising and publicity had replaced hard bargaining...
...tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary, Thomas' responsibilities grew with the club; he became local president, district governor, sparked the movement that more than trebled Rotary membership in New Zealand...