Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, Sukarno spent the Outer Islands' earnings on Java. In early 1955 Colonels Sumual and Warouw in the Celebes began shipping out copra and collecting their own taxes on the trade. Instead of sending the revenue to Djakarta, they used the money for local schools and roads. In Central Sumatra veteran Colonel Ahmad Husein followed their lead, took over the regional administration, soon was exporting rubber to Singapore. Tall, efficient Colonel Simbolon in North Sumatra and scholarly Colonel Barlian in South Sumatra also went into the business of army-managed barter and invested the profits in schools, roads, barracks...
...claim to fame was as a high-jump star (6 ft. 5½ in.) at San Francisco State College. The son of a chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several months before it began lighting boards in San Francisco...
Running Hard. Johnny and Manager Noga are playing the big time with all the care and finesse of deep-sea fishermen hooked into prize tuna. Johnny has abandoned his ambition to be a pure jazz singer ("not profitable"), has carefully cultivated the delicate art of wooing local disk jockeys. So far, he has been seasoning himself in small clubs, avoiding the gaudier barns on the theory that "I haven't yet got the ability of a Lena Home to take a thousand people and bring them down to the size of a fist...
Comparison of the figures bears this out. The first class hike will raise local postage 33 per cent, and out-of-town postage 66 per cent. The second class increase (which will affect the major magazine concerns) will not be that high, and the "junk mail" increase will only amount to 14 per cent of its current insufficient rate. In addition, the Senate has rejected an amendment which would have raised rates for companies using over $1 million of postage annually. This would have more nearly compensated for the strain the big weekly magazines put on the post office...
...seems certain that the bulk of the present proposal will be passed by the House. The five-cent non-local rate is the only major item in question. The Senate has stated that this will be only a temporary measure. It is interesting to note, however, that the raise from two cents to three cents in 1933 was also passed as a "temporary measure...