Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, says Rickenbacker, he will have a fleet of 218 multiengined airliners-60 jet and turboprop "express liners," 60 local-service twin-engined ships, plus 98 four-engined "super air-coach" planes. All told, the fleet will treble Eastern's current carrying capacity to 20 million passengers annually flying 15 billion miles. Says Rickenbacker: "Air transportation should make more progress in the next ten years than we have been able to accomplish in the past...
Offering a new contract to A.F.L. production workers in its three New Jersey plants, American Can Co. included the same widely hailed guaranteed-annual-wage plan that the can industry had given the C.I.O. steelworkers' union (TIME, Aug. 22). But from the A.F.L. local came a startling reaction. Through Business Agent John Gerard, the union flatly rejected G.A.W., said that it was clearly unnecessary in their industry, where there is no seasonal layoff comparable to that in auto plants...
Young Törless found the frustrations of growing up something he could explain to neither his doting parents nor the stuffy members of the school staff. That old devil sex was getting troublesome, too, and a visit to a local prostitute only added to his confused ideas. When a couple of sadistic pals decide to make a butt of an effeminate fellow student, Törless is both disgusted and attracted. Up in a dark attic, the victim is systematically beaten to a physical and emotional pulp...
These words were honey-coated to local football enthusiasts, who already had begun to speculate about the Crimson's remaining seven games long before the scoreboard read Harvard 60, Massachusetts...
Tonight's meeting will probably be WHRB's last attempt this year to gain approval of their broadcast request--a request it has submitted for the past three years. In the past, WHRB was turned down down because the University had already signed a contract with local station...