Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Red Cross, traditionally aloof from federated charities, changed its policy last April, now gives its blessing to local chapters that decide to join the chests and United Funds. In the 1955 United Fund and» Community Chest drives, nearly 600 Red Cross chapters (out of 3,713 chapters) joined...
...speech sent China's Communists flying into action. New cadres were trained and sent out to ginger up timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into...
...week after Sultan Mohammed V returned to Morocco's throne, it was still an open question whether he or anyone else would be able to keep order in Morocco's restive land. The Sultan could not trust some 400 pashas and caids (local administrators) who had endorsed his banishment by the French. They, in turn, fearing reprisals from the Sultan's friends, dared not assert their authority or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the police power to Moroccans, concentrating...
...outcome of the Chicago cases was of national concern. Not only has the city more than its share of bootleg dental dealers in local trade; it is also home to virtually all the mail-order business. This undertakes to supply false teeth by copying old dentures mailed in, or-stranger still-by using impressions made by the victim at home with a do-it-yourself...
Next day Dr. Harry & Co., who were collecting marine specimens near by, raced to the village and bought Eugenie for $20. She was given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...