Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, city-supported market-research institute in Nürnberg. It was a backwater existence. Evenings Erhard dined heavily on Franconian smoked meat and dumplings, played the piano or took a hand at Doppelkopf (a four-handed card game) with his institute associates. After World War II broke out, local Nazis pressed Erhard to join Hitler's Labor Front. He refused, lost his post and founded an institute of his own. Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must...
...begins at breakfast with his economist wife in their modest, government-owned home on the Venusburg overlooking Bonn. Heading for his Bonn headquarters, he dictates speeches as he rides, often stops off at a local market to check prices personally. As the Mercedes 300 lurches up to the entrance in a swirl of dust, his driver tries to get out and open the door. But Erhard is already out, Homburg in hand and cigar in mouth, charging toward the ministry entrance like a soccer forward. He waves jovially to the doorkeeper, fairly skips up the steps and down the long...
...varying degrees of doubt and are actually against it; and that, although a small portion of the masses enthusiastically demand reform, the large portion of the masses still lack enthusiasm." Nine-tenths of the Red cadres (but not the Red troops) sent into Tibet from China have been withdrawn, local authority and schools have been handed back to the Tibetans, and a number of Red construction projects have been postponed. The Reds left some "upper-strata personages" on the state payroll although, as the Red document admitted, "there is nothing much to be done at present...
...beard impersonating an antarctic explorer who had found the watch just the thing for polar expeditions. It was good, hard-selling copy of the Hathaway eyepatch school. And sell it did when the ad appeared a fortnight ago in Havana newspapers. Grinning and snickering, Cubans quickly bought out the local dealer's whole stock. But in spite of the ad's success, further publication was hastily suspended. Reason: Jarman-in-a-beard was a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, the tenacious rebel who burrowed into eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains eleven months ago and has since...
...American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, who went there as the wife of a Hollywood screen writer in 1950. She stayed on after his death to run her own bottling and solid carbon dioxide works by putting up $10,000 herself, raising the other $150,000 in local funds. Worth of her business today:$350,000. Yearly profit: upwards...