Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before long, the local Catholics were stung to action. Wearing a light sport shirt and black trousers and carrying a heavy cane, Father James Milano of Pecos' Santa Rosa Catholic Church appeared, shouting, "Catholics-don't listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...
...Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Jascha Heifetz; and National Concerts and Artists Corp., which books Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, Baritone Robert Merrill, et al. The agencies' power lies in their subsidiaries-Columbia's Community Concerts, and National's Civic Concert Service-which between them have organized local civic associations in some 1,200 communities in 48 states. These groups act as local sponsors for the big agency artists, thus providing a huge reservoir of regular prepaid music consumers. Columbia's artists take about $3.2 million and N.C.A.C.'s about $1.3 million a year from...
Today, chances are that Carol's offspring are busily raising money for the local museum, planning the annual art show and maybe taking painting lessons on the side. In the Midwest, art enthusiasm is busting out all over. Museum attendance is up (218,000 visitors to a Van Gogh show at Chicago's Art Institute), donations and bequests are steadily mounting. After many a long, lean year, art associations are proudly setting up permanent headquarters along Main Street...
Stopgap Plan. All across the prairies, farmers dug into savings for cash to meet their taxes, payments on land and farm machinery. In Sanford, Man., the local credit union closed its books when the outstanding loans reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their...
...boost from New York Airways and Belgium's Sabena Airlines. Inter-airport traffic in the New York area is growing so fast that N.Y.A., now operating five helicopters, will order seven new twelve-passenger, 105-m.p.h. Sikorsky S-58 whirlybirds, double its annual passenger capacity. To expand its local helicopter service between eight European cities (TIME, May 16), Sabena will order eight new Sikorskys...