Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apprentice plumber at 16, Meany, now 58, is a genial extrovert who firmly believes that a labor leader should be concerned with more than pork chops for his boys. An aggressive speaker with a talent for sticking to the pertinent facts, he became business representative for New York Plumbers Local 463 at 28. At 40, he was the youngest president of the New York State Federation of Labor since Samuel Gompers...
...plans call for 1) damming of the Volta river to provide a continuous 560,000 kilowatts, 2) building smelters to extract an annual 120,000 long tons of aluminum from local bauxite, 3) building a new harbor at Tema, 20 miles east of Accra. A government commission will work out an agreement between the British and Gold Coast governments, and British and Canadian aluminum companies; after that, the British will put up $121 million. The aluminum will replace about one-third of British purchases from dollar areas...
After two weeks' care in a local hospital, eight-year-old Barbel last week would still eat no solid food and could utter no word. But for the first time in her life, she was playing-apparently happily-with other children. In a prison nearby, mother Rosa awaited trial for gross negligence (maximum sentence: five years at hard labor). "I was so ashamed. I was so ashamed," she muttered again & again...
...columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week for feuds. Wrote Winchell: "[I] will offer seven columns a week for New Yorkers. Syndicate papers can use if they wish. The Tuesday and Saturday columns will resume spotlighting the [local] pinks and punks...
...forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn" plan became a standing joke in Providence, but the New Haven thought such a plan no joke. Recently, the local Rotary Club was told that the railroad was thinking of making a change. Last week, the board of the New Haven Railroad approved a plan for relocating Union Station just as Reporters Doyle and Quinn had suggested...