Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cremation, at Velsen, near Amsterdam. Last week the Dutch Parliament debated a government bill legalizing cremation, with these qualifications: 1) the written request of the deceased either in his will or otherwise would be required; 2) royal permission would be necessary to establish any new crematorium; 3) any substantial local religious opposition could prohibit the building of a crematorium in a given area...
...Angelo. Texas (pop. 52,000), the murder was the biggest news in years. Wealthy Helen Harris Weaver. 51. wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas...
...American Council of Learned Societies thinks that universities might consider revamping some teacher-training programs, and instead of insisting on the Ph.D. degree, might extend and deepen their programs leading to the M.A. At the University of Toledo, President Asa Knowles has scoured the community and local industry for teachers, now has 75 business and professional men serving part time on his faculty. Other presidents have come to the conclusion that colleges may have to make use of bigger and bigger lecture courses and more and more...
...told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into a quagmire six months of the year. The first two wells were dry holes, but the third brought in sulphur. By 1947 the Bradys had proven out 3,000,000 tons, and turned over their concession...
...were not for financing help from local businessmen, plus favorable land deals in both Philadelphia and New Haven, Henderson would not even now be building a hotel. He thinks the cost per room is too high for the rates the traffic will bear. But in the next few years Henderson expects to see "a rash of new hotels" in the U.S. Says he: "With the population growth and the increasing patronage of hotels, the price per room tends to rise, and will soon reach a point at which a hotel builder can go in, do his own financing and make...