Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...closely with the 54 American News Co. and independent wholesale distributors across Canada who deliver the magazine. They also keep close contact with the newsdealers themselves, supplying display racks, seeing that each dealer gets the proper supply of magazines, watching for special stories. Some stories may have a particular local interest. In such cases, a larger number of copies of that issue, along with newsstand posters, can be moved into the area...
...British royal commission investigating the struggle between Arab and Israeli 17 years ago arrived at a tragic conclusion. "Fundamentally," said the Peel Report of 1937, "it is a conflict of right with right." Last week-one world war and one local war later-the judgment was still valid. The Jews were right, because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine, where 1,670,000 today carve out their earthly Zion, became the cradle of their culture and religion. The Arabs were right, because for more than 1,000 years the land had been theirs...
Last week, as part of a general effort "to improve relations between us and the British." Colonel G. F. McGuire, deputy commander of the Britain-based U.S. Third Air Force, ordered airmen of his command to modify their off-duty garb "in accordance with local custom." The only exception: attendance at such ail-American affairs as ball games. There, zoot suits, Harry Truman shirts and other native costumes may still be worn without penalty...
Guatemala's anti-Yanqui bosses muscled in on another old-line U.S. company last week. The firm was W. R. Grace & Co., which for 25 years had managed the lightering and warehouse operations at the Pacific port of San José through a local affiliate in which Grace held a 64% stock interest. After refusing to renew the port company's permit, the government "intervened" in its affairs but ordered Grace officials to run the port until a new management could be found. Guatemalans heard that the owners would be forced to part with enough stock shares...
Though a regional security treaty would be a major long-range factor in safeguarding Southeast Asia for democracy, it could have little effect on the present situation in Indo-China. This is because there has been no external aggression, but only local rebellion. For the same reason, U.N. intervention at this time is impossible...