Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, of course, is to cover the news of national interest that originates in the Rocky Mountain states.* During and since the war an increasing volume of news has come from there. Denver itself, the focus of transcontinental railroads, highways and airlines, is the largest, fastest-growing business center between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. As such, it is the natural center of TIME Inc.'s news gathering forces in the area...
...city rose again until it became part of the Holy Roman Empire-the first and only European union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
Morbid Watchers. Late one night, while most of Shanghai slept, the lights burned brightly in the offices of the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, whose difficulties with the Communists (TIME, July 4) had occupied the center of Shanghai's stage almost since the first days of the takeover. Inside, sleepless Editor Randall Gould and an assistant listened wearily while a delegation of workers beat out an ear-splitting cacophony with a band made up of pans, buckets and empty kerosene tins...
Brookhaven is also studying the effect of radiation on plants. A field has been marked off with concentric circles, and various crops have been planted on the circular lines. In the center is a powerful source of radiation (cobalt 60). By the end of summer, Brookhaven's nuclear-agronomists will know more about radiation effects upon growing plants...