Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the days," McDonald recalls, "when everyone was making his own set." To stimulate interest, McDonald and a partner built a portable broadcasting station and barnstormed small Midwest towns. It was during this venture that Frank McDonald first became an ad salesman. At each stop they would round up local talent for a program, then sell advertising time to the merchants. "I remember one show we put on in Sycamore, Illinois," he says. "I was the announcer. The local township orchestra was directed by a girl named Florence Wollensock, and I made the mistake of calling her 'Cot-tonsock...
...income taxes, 5) the credit situation is sound, 6) business has broad plans for expenditures on plant and equipment, 7) housing construction is likely to continue at about the 1953 level, 8) the cut in federal expenditures will be largely balanced by increases in state and local government spending...
...demands on a ready Air Force are so extreme (e.g., SAC air crews spend at least three months overseas each year) that its airmen have no time to fit into a local community. Communities, in return, are often hostile and impatient with the migrating airmen. (March A.F.B., near Riverside, Calif., paid its enlisted men in $2 bills one week, then politely pointed out its importance to the community's business when Riverside cash registers were soon filled with $2 bills.) To gain stability for the long pull, a ready military force must have the resources and privileges...
...Nile village of Ibyar and razed 102 houses, he set forth on a special train to reassure the hundreds of homeless. On the way back to Cairo, his train stopped at neighboring Kafr ez-Zaiyat. As he stood on the back platform, acknowledging the cheers of 50,000 local fellahin, disaster paid a return visit. The Cairo-Alexandria Express roared down the northbound track, cutting a bloody swath through the crowd, killing 28. Weeping, the President walked into the crowd to comfort the wounded and console relatives of the dead...
When the time was ripe, the invaders would make a landing on Guatemala's south coast, joining with local uprisings and a simultaneous invasion across the Honduran border...