Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition there are 85 cities in the U.S., 20 in Canada and 60 overseas where TIME requires independent coverage but not fulltime representation. In each, TIME has a local correspondent (called a "string correspondent" or "stringer") to watch for news stories of more than local interest, to cover special assignments for our editors, to answer their queries, and to keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking...
...Natural. In Arlington, Va., local Republicans chose a new campaign manager, Warren Dewey...
When the steel industry dropped the basing-point system (TIME, July 19), Big Steel's Ben Fairless began to worry about the fate of Pittsburgh. Because it normally makes more steel than local industries can use, he thought some of the steel plants would have to move away to find a market. But last week, it seemed likely that the market would come to Pittsburgh...
...gang's leader is a pale, frail, lethal youth (well played by Richard Widmark) who is very proud of his "scientific" methods. (Sample: he schemes to get the G-man knocked off, in the course of an apparent burglary, by the local police.) His business associates are so young and fearsome that among them Mr. Stevens, no pantywaist, seems as mild and conspicuous as a country uncle. He makes himself still more conspicuous by the recklessly amateurish ways he keeps in touch with fellow agents; they signal each other, for instance, with lights at fleabag windows. However, he stirs...
...hideous tin roofs sloping away toward the sea, and a ringing clang came to his ears as a vulture perched heavily on top of the hotel. Down at the quayside, pickaninnies swarmed like little vultures around a newly landed seaman and triumphantly escorted him to the local brothel...