Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corkscrewing the Truth." "No! No!" the crowd shouted fervently, and when Harry had finished, local Democratic bigwigs surged up to slap the ex-president on the back. In more than three years out of office Harry Truman had lost none of his ability to fire up the Democratic faithful-in fact the fire burned so merrily that some of his old friends in the party suspected he might be thinking of himself as a last-resort candidate...
...over an evergrowing share of these relatively conservative investments, U.S. investors have tended in recent years to plunge on more speculative enterprises. The recent inflow of American capital has mainly gone into Canada's oil industry, mining and new manufacturing plants. But here too, the inexorable trend toward local ownership is already under way. In the past ten years, Canadian investors have increased their stock holdings in U.S.-controlled companies operating in Canada by more than...
Away with Clutter. In the eleven years that have passed since war's end, Londoners have been debating how to take advantage of the destruction to rebuild the area into a worthy setting for the cathedral. One group, now headed by Minister of Housing and Local Government (and Churchill's son-in-law) Duncan Sandys, wanted to make away with the clutter of market and business buildings that still hem in St. Paul's, create a majestic plaza in the grand manner...
...answer to the Brattle's late horror show, the U.T. presented a staged abduction and genuine melee about 11:30 p.m. last night. The cooperation of the Lampoon was enlisted for the abduction, but unidentified local residents rushed in to free the victim while the late theatre crowd stood...
...Department of Justice also asked for authority to bring suit against anyone who seeks to prevent a person from exercising his right to vote. At present, only state and local officials can be prosecuted, although attempts at intimidation and coercion often come from persons with no governmental connection. In addition, the Justice Department wants permission for either it or a private individual to go directly to a Federal court in such cases without first exhausting lengthy state procedures...