Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed that Hindi replace English as India's official language. To appease the non-Hindi-speaking majority it would be done through a is-year transition period in which Hindi would be spread everywhere (especially in the south). Further, 13 of the lesser languages would be recognized for local and provincial use. Prime Minister Nehru himself defended the government's proposal. He turned his oratory particularly against those who favored a revival of ancient Sanskrit...
...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...settlement closely fitted the publishers' terms. President Woodruff Randolph of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union told his strike-weary printers to accept a $10 weekly wage boost (to $95.50)-the same offer he had high-handedly ordered them to reject six months ago, after Chicago's Local 16 had approved it. The strikers had lost $13 million in wages, and the I.T.U. had paid $1 i million in strike benefits and costs. Consensus of the printers: "We took a beating...
...been street preaching. In 36 counties of southwestern Missouri, some 70 of his priests are touring in pairs from town to town in any kind of car they can get, so long as it can be equipped with a loudspeaker. At each stopping place the travelers seek out the local priest and with him go to work on a street corner preaching, answering questions, passing out pamphlets. This project has been especially effective in reclaiming backsliders. As a result of one such mission, says Bishop O'Hara, he last year confirmed 23 members of a single family...
...Brimming Cup. In Topsfield, Mass., while trying to sell surplus apples at the local fair, Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Abbott learned that in the apple pie baking contest they had won second and third prizes: eight bushels of apples...