Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles. The palace furnishings, once a vast treasure, had been smashed or looted by French police and local vandals. Of his collection of 60 clocks, four remained; of hundreds of porcelain and crystal vases, one. Gone were the royal family photo albums, as well as the Sultan's 56 cars, trucks and buses, which the French government had sold off. Where once was a private zoo, only three gazelles and an ostrich remained. Muttered Mohammed...
Without law or precedent to justify him, the mayor, himself a well-heeled aristocrat, began a campaign to equalize local resources in a system of "voluntary donations" levied against the rich. "I myself opened the subscription with a donation of 2,000 pesetas," he said. "Then I dedicated myself to visiting all the well-off people to obtain donations...
...soon providing free meals for 4,000 townsfolk every day. In time, his "Social Benefits Fund" was expanded to cover an ambitious job-providing public-works program, which gave the town new streets, a better sewage system, a recreation hall for workers and even a new altar for the local church. Some of the funds were used to make a movie about the Santisteban way, which brought more funds into the town coffers...
...stamps and premiums. If he buys the service of Sperry & Hutchinson, biggest U.S. trading-stamp dealer, he will pay about $3 per 1,000 stamps, one of which he will give away with each 10? purchase. In return, S. & H. supplies the books for pasting up stamps, helps with local advertising and promotion, opens a convenient premium store. To cover the cost of the plan (2% to 3% of the yearly gross), a retailer must boost sales an average of about 20%. For the merchant who is first in his neighborhood with stamps, this is usually easy. But as each...
Rebel Without a Cause (Warner) is a reasonably serious attempt, within the limits of commercial melodrama, to show that juvenile delinquency is not just a local outbreak of tenement terror but a general infection of modern U.S. society...