Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reprieve is promised by the local weather bureau from the fierce northeast storm which lashed the Boston area yesterday with high winds and more than an inch and a half of rain...
...Tamanaco cost $8,500,000-half from the Venezuelan government, a quarter from local private capital and a quarter from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. For the U.S. salesmen who swarm to the booming capital, it offers comfortable rooms at $8 a day; for luxury-seeking tourists it has suites...
...nearly a year, four small boys, aged 7 to 10, led the police of Rosenberg, Texas (pop. 6,210) a merry chase. The boys stole keys from a used-car lot just for the thrill, broke innumerable light bulbs, tried to set a local dance hall on fire, scooped money off newsstands, broke into at least five stores. All in all, they were arrested a total of 21 times, but on each occasion, they were able to laugh right in the police chief's face. As the boys knew only too well, they were too young for prosecution under...
Early last year a French painter who was working in Tahiti noted the fascination with which native children crowded around his easel. He distributed paper and crayons to the children, and his example was later followed by the local French administration...
...Union, which has a minimum scale of $120 to $131 weekly, had cut its demand for a $15-a-week raise to $7.50, v. the $3.75 offered by the publishers. But even though the union's international president wanted to arbitrate the difference, the New York City local's President Denis Burke led the membership in a thumping 287-47 vote against arbitration. The other unions, committed to full cooperation, went along with the engravers' decision...