Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this sum, the expenses of the fund-raisers amounted to $14,529,000, "administrative costs" ate up another $2,400,000, and $3,837,000 more went for D.A.V. lobbying. Not a cent went for the direct aid of a needy veteran. The D.A.V. does maintain 1,800 local chapters, which help veterans, for example, with their claims against the Government...
...loses a staffer to any other newspaper. When the flow of news is heavy the news department rules, decides how much space it will need, leaves the rest for ads. The P-D needs plenty of news space since it always fills its columns with national and international news, local stories, exposes and dispatches from its seven-man Washington bureau, headed by able Raymond ("Pete") Brandt...
Pass Champion. Though he manages to sell half a million dollars worth of insurance a year, and though his chatty TV show has a high local audience appeal, Graham's football feats, as he well knows, are his main asset. Last week, after clinching their fourth straight division title in the National Football League with their tenth straight victory, the Browns gave Graham a well-deserved day off. But just to keep the crowd happy, Coach Paul Brown put husky (6 ft. 1 in., 195 lbs.) Quarterback Graham in the game for a few plays...
...test driver for South Bend's Studebaker Corp., Elmer Kovach spent his working days putting Studebakers through their paces. But in his off hours, Kovach preferred to drive a 1953 Oldsmobile. This preference soon got Kovach in trouble with fellow members of the United Auto Workers' (C.I.O.) Local 5 in the plant. One day last summer, two union stewards dropped by with a little advice. It might be a good idea, they said, to trade his Olds in on a Studebaker; the union had decided workers should drive nothing but Studebakers, since it was a matter of jobs...
...supplied by such new federal dams as Hungry Horse, McNary and Chief Joseph. To help supply this staggering increase, Montana Power Co. President John E. Corette unfolded a dramatic plan inspired by Ike Eisenhower. The President had suggested a partnership plan for building big multi-purpose dams, with local groups picking up the tab for generating equipment and the dams themselves, and the Government shouldering the cost of flood control, navigation, etc. This is exactly what Corette's company and five others-plan to do. They have formed a corporation to go partners with the Government on big multi...