Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin, and the northern counties of the Midwest farm states. He chose dirt-section line roads in preference to highways, the little towns over the cities. He stopped in at Elks lodges, Chambers of Commerce, Grange halls, talked to Farm Bureau members, Farmers Union members, ranchers, foresters, state and local officials, editors. His report...
Happy Undertaker. Healer Jessel is within her legal rights (the customary $1 is a voluntary contribution). Says Clarence Litwiller, a local undertaker who claims that last year he buried 18 of Susie's patients: "She's the biggest business in town for everybody...
...British subject who spoke both French and English much too fluently for comfort in the streets of Arnhem, Audrey was sent to school to learn the language of her mother's people. In the afternoons she took drawing lessons, and once a week she went to the local conservatory of music to learn ballet. Sometimes, on her way to school, she would carry messages for the underground in her shoes. Later, when her dancing had become fairly proficient, she and a friend who played the piano gave dance recitals in private houses to collect money for the resistance...
...successful dauber of polite European-type landscapes that looked good in the best Indian homes. Then, at the age of 34, he got bored and decided to look at his country again through Indian eyes. Going back to the villages of his native Bengal, he learned about local folklore and religious customs, simplified his style and began copying the primitive pictures he saw on mud huts. At first his dancing devils and elephant gods were not successful, and for years he barely kept alive. Sometimes he used his clothes for canvas-first smeared with cow dung to stiffen them, then...
...existence of these public-works plans also provides a useful cushion to ease the impact of any future economic blow. A new concept of planning has grown up since the Depression created the need. It has been made an integral and accepted part of federal, state and local governments. Nowadays, in preparing for the future, planners separate public-works projects into two major categories: 1) those that must be built as quickly as the money can be raised; 2) those that can be deferred and taken off the shelf when they may be needed to combat a slump...