Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike Gorman, editor of the Flint Journal, snapped that Harriman had smeared Flint and the civic leaders who directed the local fund drive. Gorman attributed to Harriman a motive that might broaden the controversy. Said he: "Despicably, Mr. Harriman has used this disaster...
Forced Landing. In Malton, Ont., when police saw Lyquint Kekoler sprinting down a runway of the local airport flapping his arms, they quickly nabbed him, despite his protest: "I'm trying to take off for Ottawa to discuss the world situation with the Prime Minister...
...battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the plain of Anthele lay bleached and barren. No trees grew to shade its parched acres from the relentless Grecian sun; no water flowed over the bank of the winding Sperchios River to wash them clear of salt and alkali. For generations, no local farmer even bothered to put his plow to the 9,000 useless acres of the plain, and even those who worked the stingy lands on its edge were forced to content themselves with only the scantiest yields...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...
...Some 40 local landowners turned over 100 acres to Packard's project; other villagers abandoned the idleness of the coffee shops to man picks & shovels for $1.50 a day; a small army of American tractors and bulldozers moved in to divert the course of the Sperchios River. In the midst of it all, usually coatless and with shirtsleeves rolled high, Walter Packard worked side by side with his Greek friends. In a few weeks, the dubious villagers who came down each evening at dusk to watch work on the newly flooded paddyfields were rewarded with the sight of tender...