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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substantial increase in telephone and postal charges. Local calls in Britain will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Butler in the Kitchen | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...Chicago the fire-breathing, 50-year-old weekly Defender has lost 10,000 local readers in the past three years, is down to 49,000 in a city of 700,000 Negroes. Its national edition has dropped to 37,000, about half its 1952 circulation. New York's Amsterdam News has dropped more than 25,000 from its 1947 peak of 62,770. The weekly Afro-American, which publishes 13 local and regional editions, including twice-weekly editions in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has dropped from 230,000 to 188,000 in national circulation since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Negro Press: 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Negro papers, such as the Pittsburgh Courier, biggest local Negro weekly in the U.S., are switching to tabloid form and a broader news policy in an attempt to regain circulation (the Courier has plummeted to a little more than half its 1948 peak of 358,000). While some Negro publishers still make a fat living, they generally lack capital to modernize plants and beef up skimpy staffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Negro Press: 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...Society for the Advancement of Science, it was about to do something to inspire better high-school science and math teachers. This year a pilot program will start in Arlington, Va. Among the things it hopes to accomplish: raise a scholarship fund to send teachers to any of eight local colleges and universities, open up summer jobs for teachers in local scientific and engineering organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...Promptly at 9 a.m. local time one day last week, 60,000 high-school seniors trooped into classrooms all over the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, took up special black electrographic pencils, and addressed themselves to answering 115 questions. Sample: "In a certain factory the rate of absenteeism for the 60 male employees is 10%, and the rate for the 45 female employees is 337%. What is the rate of absenteeism for the factory as a whole?" Two hours later, the 60,000 went home to await word as to whether they had passed the first hurdle towards a National Merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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