Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITHOUT LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, I WOULD BEG TO CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OF VIRGINIA CITY IN THE REVIEW [AUG. 30] OF MY "COMSTOCK COMMOTION" FROM 2,450 TO THE ACTUAL 4OO. YOUR FIGURE SOUNDS BETTER, BUT IT ALSO GIVES US LESS FAVORABLE SALOON-TO-POPULATION RATIO. OUR 17 SALOONS FOR 4OO INHABITANTS, WE BELIEVE, IS THE GREATEST DENSITY IN THE U.S., AND WE DON'T WANT IT MISREPRESENTED...
...paper covered community news with all the curiosity, but none of the taboos, of small-town dailies. It also covered national and international news, but never let its readers forget what part their own neighbors were playing in it. The local angle was stretched to cover the world. When Andrei Vishinsky, who lived in Glen Cove with other members of the Russian U.N. delegation, left New York on the same ship with Long Island's Episcopalian bishop, Newsday jauntily captioned its pictures: "Two Long Islanders Leave for Europe...
...once-segregated Hobbs, N. Mex. (just four miles from the Texas border), white and Negro children quietly went off to school together without incident, despite the warnings of the Rev. William (Bill) Carter, who had declared that the town would explode into violence. Local police refused to get hysterical, kept extra patrol cars and men inconspicuous, and the local district attorney quieted Carter with a warning that he would be held responsible for any outbreaks...
...private power company have blocked each other's expansion in the courts and before the state Public Utilities Commission. As a result, customers suffered with poor service at high cost. Last week the feud finally ended. Kentucky Utilities had a precedent-setting, ten-year agreement with 15 local cooperatives to exchange generating and transmission facilities. And the generators were turned on in a brand-new steam power plant at Ford, Ky. Built by the East Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp., it will also supply surplus power to the Kentucky Utilities Co., after meeting needs of its own customers...
...less common. Workers in big cities are less likely to want company-sponsored recreational facilities. Moreover, the unions fight for the loyalty of their members, try to incorporate extras into their contracts, and often have their own recreation programs, such as that of Detroit's big U.A.W. Local 600 at Ford...