Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...machine stopped. And suddenly in Manhattan's lofty apartment buildings, 200,000 dwellers, some of whom are lords of a sizable part of creation during business hours, seemed as flustered and helpless as unshelled hermit crabs. Local 32-6 of A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes was on strike. Elevators stopped running, coal furnaces went out, and matrons were forced to open taxi doors themselves...
...This Stinks!" The boss of the Times's vast local, national and foreign news-gathering and news-editing machine is Managing Editor Edwin Leland James, 59. Jaunty "Jimmy" James was a star reporter himself during World War I and in postwar Paris. A 35-year veteran of the Times, Virginia-born James still carries a cane and affects what Alexander Woollcott once admiringly called a manner of "extreme truculence, tinged with contempt." Occasionally, in a break from Times tradition, he bursts from his private office off the southwest corner of the city room, waving his cigar and copy...
...decision to continue the foundation was not unexpected, as it was supposed to be a permanent body when it was established in November of 1948. However, the group has been very expensive for the University to maintain so far. Organizing local committees took a great deal of time, because so little contact work had been done with graduate alumni previously...
Employees of the University Bakery, members of an A.F.L. local, vote this morning in a "consent election" to decide whether they will break with the national union and join the independent University Employees Representative Association...
...Local spectators will probably see the best tennis of the home season when North Carolina's Tarheels invade Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today. Led by Clark Taylor, Vic Seixas' doubles partner of last year and nationally ranked singles player, North Carolina is one of the strongest outfits in the East. But the match should not be nearly so one-sided as the 13 to 0 and 12 to 1 pastings the Tarheels handed to an inexperienced Crimson on the spring trip...