Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought up around him." But as a boy, Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money without working. When he was eleven, his mother, trying to keep him busy and out of scrapes, paid the local telephone company to hire him as a lineman's helper. The experiment failed, and Carl was shipped away to Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo. When he got into more trouble, his mother pushed him into the Marine Corps. He went AWOL, explaining later: "I'd rather...
...afternoon Paco rose in Congress and said a few kind words for some local Communists. As he warmed to his work, he exclaimed that the Communist Party is Guatemala's "most decent, most honest, most disciplined and most patriotic." Finally, carried away, Paco blurted out that his own party, PAR. is "only a party of transition . . . destined to disappear into the great world Communist Party...
...Each student church is established by the local church district and is directly responsible to it. Sometimes it takes Hahn a long time to convince a district that it should set one up. "There are still some who think that the best plan is to direct students to the local church," he explains. "They think we are spoiling the students. Experience shows that we are not spoiling the youth but . . . making functioning Christians out of them...
...onetime Wall Street broker, launched his plan in 1938 in the belief that most people fail to buy stock simply because they don't know how to go about it. He decided to sell stock on a flexible installment plan, with 120 payments ranging from $10 up. A local bank, now the Lincoln Rochester Trust Co., agreed to be custodian of the stock and keep records of the payments. To make things simple, Quinby offered only one stock, Eastman Kodak, the company best known in Rochester...
...century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...