Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Okayed plans to begin, within a few days, the sale of $384 million worth of surplus commodities overseas in exchange for local currencies to be used in the mutual-aid program...
Delegate Frank Canada, Local 1199 (Chicago): I would like to ask Mr. Mitchell what the Republican Party or himself did. They put in a movement for the excess-profits tax for the manufacturers, which in our shops saved them $200,000 in this last year. Did they do anything for the working people? Have they ever done anything for a union member...
Delegate Albin Hartnett, Local 113 (Philadelphia): I read to you from the 1953 convention proceedings of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In your address, you said: "We are working hard to find ways and means to bring about an increase in the present 75? an-hour minimum to a more realistic level, in keeping with the present-day wage levels. We do not know yet what that level should be. I do know that the C.I.O. platform calls for $1.25. Just as soon as we come up with our findings, the Department of Labor will make recommendations to the President...
...Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
Female Barrier. The Air Force took over the city airport, which was named for a local hero, and then tried to change the name. For 18 months two local papers complained about the "Air Force grab." When two jet squadrons moved in with a roar-angry petitions were passed around. Relations were at "breaking point" when Colonel Shoup went to work. First, he decided to take and chart all phoned complaints...