Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Committee for Relief of Republican Spain...
Typical of Dr. Schacht's adroit manipulation is Germany's coffee trade with Brazil. Germany barters finished goods in exchange for Brazil's coffee beans. The beans, canned in Germany, are resold to small Central European countries for exchange and at lower prices than Brazil demands. This maneuver involves heavy losses to Germany and damages Brazil's market. But it puts much-needed foreign exchange into Dr. Schacht's hands, and incidentally increases the impressiveness of Germany's export trade...
...version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum...
...very little has been done in big cities to protect children from a very prevalent type of lunatic: and it spurred the police of New York and Chicago, at least, to get busy and do something about it. In Chicago State's Attorney Thomas Courtney hurriedly organized a central Sex Bureau to keep up-to-date records of all men accused of molesting children. Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases...
...last week 115 test wells were drilling in 21 counties of Illinois' central basin and 75 wells were producing 10,000 barrels a day in Clay, Marion and Richland counties. First strike in Richland was the Ohio Oil Co.'s "Arbuthnot No. 1," brought in fortnight ago with a flow of 2,561 barrels the first day, which seemed to prove a 30-mi. extension of the known producing area. Close-mouthed oilmen now predict that the first year's production from Illinois' new fields will be between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 barrels...