Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harold is a writer. Although rejected by the Advocate (a local magazine devoted to literature), he sold a poem to a Greenwich Village little magazine for a free subscription, and an article (under a psuedonym) on trailor-camping to a Western magazine for $120. That $120 has to sustain him for the summer, at the pace of a dollar...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway - the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...other U.S. cities Puerto Ricans have moved in with little furor. Some 6,000 Puerto Ricans live in Lorain, Ohio, drawn by work in the National Tube Co.'s mills. Says Carl Longwell, president of the United Steelworkers' local: "They are definitely as efficient as any other workmen"-which suggests that cutting Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. is no particularly desirable objective for anyone...
...industry by higher labor and material costs. In steel, which picked up speed to a scheduled operating rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects to hike prices to cover the automatic wage increase going into effect on July 1. Consensus: probably...
...Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district...