Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost three years ago, St. Louis' American Lithofold Corp., which specializes in printing forms and depends on government orders for half its work, applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a loan. Charles Alexander, local RFC manager, rejected the application...
...down western Germany, I found a new note in politics. To any number of political questions, people replied : "That's up to Bonn." The Bonn federal government has gained grudging acceptance, even respect. Local elections center on federal issues. Western Germany's body is beginning to respond to its brain...
Several years ago, during World War II, the Japanese district commander at Butterworth, near Singapore, ordered the destruction of a local Hindu temple to make way for an airfield. Local laborers refused to tear down the shrine; the deity who dwelt within, they said, did not want to move. The Japanese gave up. Last week the tactful British, who also want to build an airfield at Butterworth, tried their luck in their own way. They approached the Hindu god through proper diplomatic channels-a local poojari, or medium. After spreading the temple liberally with sweet-smelling blossoms, coconuts, saffron...
Brigadier General Louis H. Renfrow, acting director of Selective Service, replied that "the authority of the local board to defer or not to defer must be preserved...But the recent tests and the reports on class standing were designed to be used by local boards as guides...
...local boards which disregard the recommendations of Selective Service and of its advisory board are being arbitrary," General Renfrow declared. "Arbitrary action, here or elsewhere, should not be tolerated...