Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghost of football season's past returns to Boston this afternoon when the Boston Tobacco Table--a group of tobacco business men in the local area--present their annual award to the unsung football hero of the 1955 season...
...local basketball team is in an unaccustomed position--at the top of the Ivy League. The team's December victory at Cornell put it there, but it will be quite a job to maintain the perfect record when Dartmouth, Penn, and the Big Red again are met next week...
...Republic of Germany, an industrialist who has not been to the U.S. to study production methods is not seriously listened to. In Mexico, Sears, Roebuck & Co., G.M. and Ford have raised wages, granted pensions and health plans, and given Mexico's unions new leverage for working on rich local capitalists. In Saudi Arabia the Arabian American Oil Co. has staked hundreds of local bright young men to prosperous careers as importers, contractors, teachers. (Its American methods have also created a feeling of sullen restlessness among other natives who are just discovering what the good life looks like...
...plane in the dream was a Dakota; the air marshal (Michael Redgrave) is assigned a Dakota (DC-3) for his trip to Tokyo next day. In the dream a high official, a civil servant and a young woman were also killed in the crash; in the actual flight the local governor calls to ask if there is room on the air marshal's plane for Lord Wainwright (Ralph Truman), a colonial officer (Alexander Knox) and his secretary (Sheila Sim). The fatal conditions are completed when "a coarse, flashy man" (George Rose) wangles passage, the radio conks out, the pilot...
...even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...