Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robinson and his editors pepped up the paper's reporting and writing, cleaned up its typography, expanded the sports section, ran more pictures. On the editorial page, Robinson jumped into fights with both feet, soon made a reputation throughout the South as a strong voice. Despite local drys, the News fought for legalized liquor and thus helped run 400 bootleggers out of business the News ripped the hide off Race-Baiter Bryant Bowles when he spoke in Charlotte. In four years, the News won three first prizes for editorials from the North Carolina Press Association. Publisher Robinson rattled around...
...summer heat melted bis congregation, the Rev. Richard L. Key of Yuma, Ariz, took a bold step. To publicize his nondenominational First Christian Church, he signed a contract with radio station KOLD to sponsor local night baseball games. Sports-loving Pastor Key, 37, a pitcher in Yuma's adult softball league and a sometime newscaster, did not bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker...
Despite the immense outlays for company publications, a growing number of industrial editors are worried. They are well aware that many of the company publications are doing a poor job compared to the hard-hitting crusading of some 500 national, regional and local papers published (at far lower cost) by labor unions. Complained Koppers Co. President Fred C. Foy: "Union publications are fighting with both fists-fighting in unity and sometimes with complete lack of regard for the Marquis of Queensberry rules . . . The question is whether management will get in the ring too or lose the battle for the minds...
...Robert Hugh Johnson. 56, moved up from first vice president to president of Ingersoll-Rand Co., biggest U.S. maker of industrial machinery. Engineer Johnson, a one-company man, joined Ingersoll-Rand in 1924 after leaving M.I.T. He became manager of the Houston branch in 1930, moved steadily through local offices. In 1939 he became assistant vice president and in 1955 first vice president...
Traffic Lane. In Wells, Nev., after complaining to the city council of being badgered by strangers for directions to the local red-light district, townspeople got the city fathers to install directional signs, charge them to the bawdyhouse proprietors...