Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice during his career, El Sapo was able to kill to his heart's content, quite legally. He was an army private during General Saturnino Cedillo's rebellion of 1938. "I killed Cedillistas on sight," he remembers with satisfaction. Later, when Sinarquistas (local Fascists) rioted in León, he had the pleasure of working the rioters over with a machine gun. "Blood ran that day!" he recalls proudly...
...editorial pages. Hearst's New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror, which seldom passes up any story with a sex angle, explained to its readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we could not become overpious and fail to publish it." Scripps-Howard editors had local option on how to handle the story, e.g., the San Francisco News ran only an explanation of why it was leaving Kinsey out ("This is adult reading"), while Denver's Rocky Mountain News cut out the data on teenage petting. Other editors had more trouble figuring out euphemisms...
...promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last February...
...favorite whipping boy of the New and Fair Deals, the U.S. public-utility industry has endured 20 years of federal encroachment. Last week the private utilities got a reprieve from the new Republican Administration: a policy statement placing a major responsibility for new waterpower development on local and private groups (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The statement did not mean an end to federal competition in power, or a retreat from such massive federal developments as Bonneville and TVA. What most utility men saw in it was mainly a hope for the future, a challenge to private power to prove that...
...fact is that, despite the inroads made by public power, both federal and local (see chart), the private-utility industry has been growing faster than any other in the U.S. More than doubling every ten years, power output has soared from 82 billion kw.-h. in 1933 to an estimated 440 billion this year; last week, in the once sluggish summer season, output hit an alltime record of 8.5 billion...