Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor and Co-Publisher T. O. ("Ted") Thackrey, who was for Henry Wallace; Co-Editor and Co-Publisher Dorothy S. ("Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson for city council; his wife endorsed Jack Kranis, Democratic and Liberal Party candidate...
Back to Nashua. Textron, Inc., which had vowed to pull out of its Nashua (N.H.) textile mills because of high costs, did some backtracking. After union and public officials protested about the loss of jobs, Textron agreed to sell the mills to a non-profit organization formed by local businessmen, lease part of the mills back for ten years. Of the town's 3,500 Textron workers, 1,800 will thus be assured of steady employment...
...steelmen, who are worried that the decision on basing points (TIME, July 19) will make it hard for Pittsburgh to sell steel when the shortage is over. The steelmen reportedly had promised G.M. plenty of steel next year in return for the new G.M. plants, which would furnish a local market when demand falls...
...does a crack job of selling its products, often flops in trying to sell itself to the public. To see if there were a surer way to make friends as well as customers, 70 companies of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, formed a local organization called Industrial Information Institute, Inc. After rounding out its first year, I.I.I, last week had a pattern of local salesmanship that businessmen of other industrial regions could apply with profit...
...help people, realize that "they have a stake in the industries for which they work," I.I.I, is publishing the first of eleven books on local industries-their growth, what they make, how they make it, etc. Schools have agreed to use them as supplementary texts. I.I.I, is now preparing a manual of jobs available for graduating seniors, to be followed up by talks by industrialists to plug the theme that local opportunities are "as good as any in the U.S." In the works for moppets (and their seniors): a 16-page comic book on free enterprise...