Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s United Packinghouse Workers union knew that its two-month strike against the Big Four packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy and Wilson) was a lost cause. Almost everybody knew that the union's leaders were ready to admit defeat. From Chicago a call went out for local leaders to come and discuss surrender terms...
...Memphis and Shelby County (Tenn.) Medical Society suspected that some of its members were having themselves paged at the local ballpark for advertising purposes, gave each man a number to be used for public summons. The calls fell off immediately...
...Palestine, knew that in the long run they would have to agree to live side by side. To mollify his Arab allies, Abdullah would have to breathe anti-Zionist fire. But he was a reluctant dragon. While he talked war, he wanted peace. Publicly, he promised the Jews local self-government in an Arab state. Jews thought that, privately, he might be willing to agree to a Jewish state with roughly the same boundaries...
Cost: about $280 million, besides what local governments in the tropics spend. But there is a danger of starting a campaign and then running out of money. A medical entomologist in the British colonial service warned: "If work should cease, even for a relatively short time, the vectors [mosquitoes] would return and we would be in the position of having produced a population without natural immunity...
...will have to be built before New Yorkers can see Hollywood stars, or Californians can see a World Series. A Chicago-to-Denver-to-San Francisco system of radio relay towers may provide a shortcut. Without cables or relays, television's world would stretch little farther than the local horizon...