Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back the concession for $6,750,000. At the time the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, some 30 miles of the railway had been completed. In succeeding turbulent years parts of the line were built by fits & starts by Chinese groups to serve their local interests...
Last week the new railway was a symbol of the genuine Progress achieved under Chiang's party which calls itself the Kuomintang. Japan forced dissolution of all locals of the Knomintang in North China last year (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week the Tokyo dailies declared that the Japanese Army now demands that Premier Chiang dissolve the locals of the Kuomintang in all China. In the North the local regime in Hopei and Chahar Provinces established by Chinese under Japanese auspices last week took for itself the kind of autonomy which in China matters most, autonomy in collecting and keeping...
...favor swearing, public surprise would not have been much greater than it was last week when 49 of the safest and most cautious U. S. motorists held a convention and announced that they favor speeding. One from each State and the District of Columbia, the 49 were selected in local contests open only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense of the American Automobile Association and the Commercial Investment Trust Safety Foundation, they settled down...
Incorporating last week as Amoskeag Industries, Inc. Manchester businessmen received from Public Service Co. of New Hampshire a subscription of $100,000, from New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co. another $100,000, from local banks and private commitments enough to enable them to hand over to the liquidating trustees in Boston a check for $500,000 as 10% payment on an agreed price of $5,000,000. In addition to its first $100,000, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire promised to pay Amoskeag Industries $2,250,000 for the hydro-electric power plant which had driven Amoskeag looms and spindles...
When the catalogs arrived, the local merchants organized a purchase-at-home-jubilee, soon found they had a different kind of celebration than they had planned. Spike's new baby had died, and he was in a bad, quarrelsome mood. When an unoffending Negro drove his car into Spike's taxi, Spike thrashed him. Eagle Catoosa, in one of his involved courtships, hired Spike to take him to see his girl. The girl was being escorted by Red Currie, who had just received his new Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl...