Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blamed the Houston Chapter of Minute Women of the U.S.A., Inc. for much of the "large-scale Red scare in the community." The 200-odd Minute Women compose "the most powerful organization of its kind in Houston in more than a quarter century" (i.e., since the death of the local Ku Klux Klan). The Post's series brought the biggest avalanche of mail the paper has ever received, but its careful, unhysterical tone was a model of how a newspaper can effectively expose irresponsible vigilantism...
...series right after the school board dropped Deputy Superintendent of Schools George Ebey (TIME, July 27) as too "controversial," even though there was never any evidence that he was a Communist or any question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...
...month), more severance pay and the right to smoke on the job. North American offered a few new fringe benefits (additional group insurance, a 2?-an-hour cost-of-living allowance) and a pay boost averaging 8? an hour. Paul Schrade, 28-year-old Yaleman and president of U.A.W. Local 887, Los Angeles, said that "the company refuses to negotiate." Answered North American's white-thatched Chairman J. H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger: "[Union] demands . . . will add more than $95 million a year to the company's operating cost ... at a time when the nation's defense budget...
...color-telecasting equipment will start going to TV stations next month in expectation of early FCC approval of color broadcasts. First will come equipment to relay network color shows; delivery of cameras to originate local color programs will start in March...
Test Case. In Gushing, Okla., shortly after staging a special fire-prevention demonstration at a local elementary school, firemen answered an alarm, found a seven-year-old boy who explained that he had set his house on fire "to find out if the firemen were telling the truth...