Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted to return to work, and the local's president Fred Wetmore resigned for "the good of the Union"- meaning that A. F. of L. thought he was too friendly with C.I.O. for a Southern Labor leader...
...most democratic in the world." The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press in the U.S.S.R.. but last week the big Moscow newsorgans continued to print no details of Russia's current series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months...
...hurried from the seaside back to a highly excited Tokyo in which Premier Prince Konoye repeatedly held midnight cabinet councils with members of the General Staff. Japanese businessmen, as usual, could not find out whether Japanese soldiers had been fighting at the command of their Government or because their local Japanese commanders had decided that the local opportunities for getting in a few blows were too good to miss last week...
...fired on Japanese emerging from Fengtai barracks for night maneuvers around Wanpinhsien and Lu-kouchiao." These two centres soon saw pitched battles in which 16 Japanese and some 200 Chinese were killed, with Japanese artillery plunking poorly aimed shells, one of which landed in the empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened fire before the Japanese "fired first," but the Chinese Government at Nanking for the first time began acting as if it were ready for war with Japan...
...Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Illinois the damage seemed likely to run close to $100,000,000. To combat the pests the U. S. Government was laying out about $1,350,000 and contributions to the war chest by State and local governments brought the total to some...