Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look" military program (see below), based on air-atomic power. In nondefense opera tions with flexible costs, which get only 10% of the budget, most of the reductions were the result of hard-bitten econ omy in operations. Some heralded the transfer of certain responsibilities to local governments, or to private enterprise, e.g., rural electrification was cut in the belief that private utilities can now do the job. For all of these nondefense opera tions where costs are not fixed, the President's proposed expenditure of $6.6 billion represents a phenomenal slice of 25% in the new Administration...
...would broaden the Federal Government's role as an insurer of housing loans, where it stands behind the industry and the owner. To preserve existing houses, he would have the Government liberalize the terms on which it will insure loans for purchase and repair of older houses. Where local communities are doing their share, he would increase the Federal Government's grants and loans for slum clearance and rehabilitation...
...Britain's power plants, recently agreed to give the union a pay increase. But the private electrical contractors balked. They offered to arbitrate, but the union's President Foulkes refused. He announced a policy of ''guerrilla" strikes-one-day surprise strikes throughout the country. One local working on a steel plant at Scunthorpe rebelled. Foulkes hustled right up there "just to have a fatherly chat." Grumbled one of the workers: "We talked for half an hour about democracy. Then Frank ignores it all and orders us out." They went-under threat from Frank to lift their...
...companies that has been boiling up for the past few months: a program Trujillo calls land reform. Having made the gesture of turning over 59 parcels of his own sugar holdings to loyal Trujillistas, the Benefactor now wants the U.S. companies to give up part of their land to local planters, for compensation to be determined later...
...Journal's decisions whenever I want and wherever I am," and "nobody's ever challenged that." There is little reason for challenge. Under Grant, the Journal's fat (up to 100 pages) weekday and Sunday (up to 400 pages) editions average 1,140 columns of local, national and international news a week. They are brightened by the best newspaper color printing in the U.S., for both news pictures and ads. For the last four years, the Journal has run more advertising than any other paper in the world (51 million lines in 1953). Though...