Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumer against exorbitant prices is not supported by the evidence. It ignores the decisive fact that, unlike coal, oil, cheese, milk, beer, potatoes, copper and other commodities to which industry literature mistakenly compares gas, there is only one feasible method of distribution of gas-the pipelines and the local gas mains...
...Many a U.S. company operating overseas, e.g., General Motors, Ford, the Arabian American Oil Co., Sears, Roebuck, has taken the lead in raising wages and improving local working conditions...
...union staff members appeared for work, most were told politely that that local was dissolved, and to "go home until you hear from us." But 15 of them, gape-mouthed with surprise, were handed dismissal notices. They were Communist Party workers who had infiltrated into positions of strength in one of West Germany's most important (408,000 members) unions...
...being widened and resurfaced, ancient potholes filled up. Grey top hats were on sale for the first time in a Lagos department store. In a city nightclub, a hot combo was rocking to the beat of a new boogie tune: Elizabeth R, Eight to the Bar, and at a local parking lot, a small, bald man, freshly arrived from London, was busily tuning up a gleaming Rolls-Royce, to put it in prime form for the Queen's ceremonial drive. Altogether, nearly $3,000,000 was being spent for Nigeria's first visit by reigning British royalty. Oddly...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...