Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became the one town in the world whose name is synonymous with racial prejudice...
...Russians crisscrossed Iowa for days. "The Russians are coming" became a popular cry. At Guy Stover's farm near Reinbeck, a lone demonstrator turned up with a sign: "There is no freedom in Russia." Mrs. Stover burst into tears, crying: "We wanted everything nice and friendly." A local minister wrested the sign away before the Russians noticed...
Bring the schools back to the local level and do away with laws. I double-dog dare the Supreme Court or the Federal Government to tell us we have violated a law if there is no law, nothing but a social custom ... If God had wanted another plan for the races, He would have done a better job than those nine nincompoops on the Supreme Court...
Parents and educators are inclined to view these un-Japanese gyrations with misgivings and even to take steps. In the city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink...
...land-based experimental submarine reactor at West Milton, N.Y., will drive a 10,000-kw. generator, supplying enough electricity to STVC a city of 20,000. Cost to Mohawk: 3 mills per kwh, about the same, as paper mills and shoe companies, which have small hydroelectric plants, charge local utilities for their excess power...