Word: localizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
...These Things Can Be Dangerous." In addition to buying records from Lormar, operators were forced to pay $3.60 per jukebox per year in protection money. In return they received the combined services of 1) Local 134, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, run by a business agent named Fred Thomas ("Jukebox Smitty") Smith, and 2) the Commercial Phonograph Survey Co. Commercial, assisted by Jukebox Smitty and a staff of ex-convicts, kept track of operators and their jukebox locations, ostensibly kept peace by preventing raiding. Estimated total shakedown cost to Chicago's operators: $100,000 a year...
...protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced his brother Nunzio Squillante (two to five years) and one Bernard Adelstein, business agent of Teamster Local 813 (five to ten years). Vincent Squillante's specialty was persuading Long Island businessmen to agree to have their garbage collected by a company operated by brother Nunzio Squillante. If they refused, they were threatened by thugs, picketed by Teamsters Union pickets. Once they signed, collection rates were doubled...
...people of Corsica, the first stop on the exile road, Mohammed brought along a very special one-"as a witness of the sincere friendship which His Majesty entertains for General de Gaulle." Shortly before the royal plane landed, it radioed Bastia airport that aboard the plane was a local boy, Ignace Cacciaguerra. a French army sergeant who had been captured by Moroccan tribesmen two years ago. The King's men negotiated for months to win the sergeant's release from the tribesmen. Summoned hastily, Cacciaguerra's mother was at the airport to greet...
...places in the free world where a birth-control congress could count on local interest in the subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will...