Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after opening, Romanoff's was showing a profit, and by the end of 1941, it was an established success. Several explanations have been advanced for this. One is that, in the land of Hollywood make-believe, where every honest actor is an impostor at heart, the local royalty welcomed this suave masquerader from the East who could play his part better than they could play theirs. A second explanation is that Mike has always had an illustrious following of loyal and genuinely affectionate friends. The third is that he runs a damn good restaurant. In this...
...Cruel Hoax." Ratliff and his committee, scurrying around in a hunt for outside capital, were forced to do most of their fund-raising after the paper was put to bed. During working hours, Ratliff himself dug up a series of beats on a local income-tax scandal that resulted in an indictment and a jail sentence for a Cincinnati doctor, Sidney Lange (TIME, April 21). But he was less successful with his own financing case...
Last week, in a precedent-making decision, Federal Judge Herbert W. Christenberry ruled that Nicholson's unit rates were indeed unfair competition. Thus, what started out as a local fight blossomed into an issue affecting more than 170 newspapers all over the U.S.; many publishers who own morning and evening papers in one city also use the unit advertising rates, i.e., advertisers must buy space in both papers to get in either...
Nowadays the Vatican rarely bans the work of specific authors. It is left to local bishops or Roman Catholic readers themselves to decide what books fall into forbidden categories. Last week, nonetheless, the Vatican proscribed the work of two widely read modern authors, and added their books to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (TIME, April 28). The authors...
Davis achieves this greater efficiency, for one thing, by getting an average of 8½ to 9 hours daily use out of each plane (v. about 6 for most local-service airlines). Davis squeezed pennies ("We even watch pencils"), and by running as many flights as possible, lured business passengers, who found that they could make quick round trips the same...