Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat Boss Hague, who ran his machine as a one-city, one-county operation, Meyner is building a statewide coalition of county leaders. Although he has more patronage at his disposal than most other governors in the U.S., Meyner has doled it out sparingly. This year he has let local leaders know that the way to get more is to work hard for Charlie Howell. Following that skillfully operated political rabbit, the county men are working and running like hungry hounds...
Last week Michigan buzzed with candidates for public office. Republican Senator Homer Ferguson graced a Bay City fish fry. His Democratic opponent, Patrick McNamara, until recently a local leader of the pipe fitters' union, gazed with admiring eye on a St. Clair County plowing contest. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams was out exercising the charm that had won him the title (bestowed by a Republican) of "the Liberace of Michigan politics." His Republican rival, Lawyer Donald Leonard, politicked from Owosso to Kalamazoo...
Manpower: Some 150,000 men, mostly World War II veterans who have already volunteered, will be sifted to provide training cadres. Soldiers will also be conscripted by local draft boards-an innovation for Germany -and serve for 18 months...
When the show is cut off for local commercials, it must still be kept moving for the stations where commercial time remains unsold. As a result, Allen's easy, oh-so-casual delivery becomes choppy and labored. Tonight's 90 minutes (plus a 15-minute local broadcast) forces him to rely on singers and special news telecasts as a respite from what is plainly a TV marathon...
...Indiana started production at the basin's first oil refinery, a $30 million giant that was as welcome to North Dakota as the first railroad. At capacity, Standard Oil's refinery will crack 30,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already producing in the U.S. portion of the basin have never flowed at more than...