Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the Depression; the price of gold had jumped from $20.67 to $35 an ounce, and he earned $45 a week as a drill bit sharpener. Three years later, he met a man by the name of Roy Thomson (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), who had bought and turned the local weekly into a daily called the Timmins Press. Copps got a cub reporter's job at $8 a week. In four years he was news editor. He then left to go to the Ottawa Journal, which wanted a French-speaking reporter. After a year, Thomson made an offer: come...
Twenty-eight U.S. observers and 236 natives of local islands had been evacuated to what had been considered a completely safe refuge, but the unpredicted "fall-out" showered them with radioactive particles. Their exposure to radiation was ten times greater than scientists deem safe, but the AEC was reassuring. "There were no burns," said a commission announcement. "All are reported well. After completion of the atomic tests, they will be returned to their homes...
...would be permitted to leave the post on weekends [and] in the evening . . . Normally, said the Army, soldiers in their first four weeks of basic training at Fort Dix are not permitted to leave the post in the evenings nor are they given weekend passes. This rule is a local one and is subject to modification...
...tradition-swathed hunters. When he saw a fox slinking toward his master's chicken house one day last week, Roger took up a shotgun and blasted the beast. Before the echoes died away, there was a clatter of hoofs, a clamor of hounds, and up rode the local hunt. The hunters stared aghast at Roger's atrocity. They were speechless. Not so Roger's employer...
...number of years, undergraduate organizations have ridden a unique gravy train: using tax-exempt lecture halls, they show motion pictures with the frank objective of making profits. But now they face a double squeeze. Film distributors, knowing that student showings hurt attendance at local commercial houses, say they will no longer give the groups 16 millimeter releases, while the Dean's Office, fearing that profits endanger the University's tax status, has become increasingly wary of the motives involved...