Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business suffered because of the war. James W. Brine Company, local sporting goods store, advertised "Army supplies required by ROTC, Navy supplies required by the Radio School." The Collegiate Balloon School, Inc. of Rockville, Conn., searched Harvard for balloon pilots for the Army Signal Corps. Instead of Evelyn Wood's speed-reading program, undergraduates turned to General Wood's "Military Science Instruction Charts" to improve their grades...
...draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...
...them. On the 23rd, the Crimson lost to Yale, 7-3. Five days later the roof of Boston's Coconut Grove restaurant came crashing down in flames on its hundreds of screaming victims. Five Harvard undergraduates died. But by now Harvard's seniors had little attention to spare for local news. America had tasted blood in North Africa, and beginning in late November thirty members of the class of '43 dropped out of Harvard each week...
While pay scales are a major factor, housing's cost problem reaches far beyond wages. The $24 billion industry has been fettered for decades by myriad little, mostly local ties that bind it to old-fashioned methods and an archaic organization. Each strand of that web reinforces the others&$151;enormously inflating the price of the final product...
...notorious source of housing-cost inflation is local building codes, which often outlaw new materials and methods. Factory-assembled plumbing can save builders $200 per house, but hundreds of localities forbid it. Around Chicago, builders generally must string electric wiring inside half-inch metal pipes instead of nonmetallic sheathed cable. The extra cost: $150 per house. Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes sells a three-bedroom house for $19,300 in one suburb, but is forced to charge $3,000 more for an almost identical model a few miles away...