Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
Usually a trade association accomplishes little, but this has not been true of the Square merchants. In recent years the organization has been responsible for Christmas decoration, improvements in local traffic conditions, increased parking facilities, and a full-fledged publicity campaign aimed at attracting suburban buyers...
...most recent activity of the association has been a request to local merchants to stay open at night from December 12-23 to handle adequately the Christmas shopping rush. According to N. Russell Cazmay, secretary of the association since 1919, most of the members stores will have late hours at least twice weekly...
Since 1910 the association has had more than 30 presidents. Sage was one of the first heads of the group, and in recent years his son, R. Rodney Sage, has held the same, post. Other presidents have included Knapp, George E. Cole, of the Coop, and Richard A. Dow, local real estate...
...acting in Arab movies. This became evident approximately half way through "Bagdad, in which Miss O'Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England in order to live with her father. When she is informed that Pa has been bumped off by a local band of rowdies known as the Black Robes, nothing will do but she must get an eye-for-an-eye and all that by eliminating the ringleader of the boys in black...