Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tars of South Shields, England's coal-exporting town that slumps at the mouth of the River Tyne, were excited last month as word flashed through local labor exchanges that Tynemouths Ltd., shipping contractors, wanted unemployed seamen for a special job. Last week, under the command of John W. Sinks, Cunard White Star captain, retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire...
...more organized whoopee than Washington's or Lincoln's. The first Roosevelt Birthday Balls in 1934 netted $1,003,000, the next $803,000, the last two together $353,000. Of this total $2,159,000, $809,000 remained in the home towns of the dancers for local institutions, $241,000 went to various medical schools for research. The remainder went to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation...
...From the health and economic records of 2,660,000 individuals living in every part of the U. S. and every type of community, of every economic level of society and every age group, Surgeon General Parran prepared a preliminary report, which he communicated last week to State and local health officers for their information & guidance. Presuming as he did that the 130,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. went through just what the 2,660,000 did, then...
...Portland, Ore., 245 printers on the Oregonian, News-Telegram and Journal went back to work after their five-day strike failed to win them a seven-hour day. The three papers ceased publication, cut local news off four big newspaper-con-trolled radio stations, persuaded neighboring publishers to send in no additional out-of-town papers. Starved for news and surfeited with months of lumber and teamsters' strikes, Portland had little sympathy for the printers. Portland editorial men, strongly non-Guild, offered no help, so the strikers had little choice but to accept the publishers' pre-strike offer...
From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash...