Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indo-China. In Indo-China, French Union forces have been fighting a costly and difficult military campaign against local Communist forces. It has been a gruelling struggle for the three young nations of Indo-China (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) and a severe drain on the manpower and resources of our old friends and allies, the French. The Communist threat in Indo-China is directed not only against the aspirations of the Indo-Chinese peoples as they emerge to nationhood, but menaces the whole of Southeast Asia and its rich raw-material resources. Britain has a strong and direct interest...
Dust Chronicle. Tipped off by Don Ignacio Guerra, a local rancher and amateur archeologist, he struggled up the remote Infernillo (Little Hell) Canyon and at last reached two caves in its vertical sides. The floor of the first was covered with four feet of dustlike material that he recognized at once as archeological pay dirt. It was chiefly the dried-up remains of millenniums of human occupancy...
...Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more than the local farmers were embattled. That year, the crowds were so large and unmanageable that four spectators were killed, and 22 more ended up in hospitals. That race sounded the knell of U.S. road racing for many a year...
...Breuer's plans for the 19 new buildings that will make up the new St. John's include a fresh conception of cloisters. Instead of running along the side of a building, as cloisters have done since St. Benedict, they will be independent covered walks, mostly of local fieldstone on the outer side, roofed with reinforced concrete and glass-walled or open on the inner side to provide views of the gardens and landscaping. Said one monk: "This is a great improvement over traditional Benedictine architecture, where buildings are always so planned that if a fire starts...
...Toledo last week, at the urging of U.A.W. Local 12 leaders, union members voted a 5% pay cut for Willys' 3,500 production workers. In the first such vote in auto history, the unionists agreed to give up incentive payments for work produced over a set quota. By increasing efficiency and shaving employment 5%, President Edgar Kaiser hopes to cut labor costs a total of 20% in the next six months. In return for the pay cut, he agreed to set up a fund into which Willys will contribute all savings from increased efficiency. One-third of the fund...