Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvador, not much bigger than Maryland, with a population of about 1,500,000, was one of the Central American countries that did not declare war on Germany. As a neutral she was invited by the League to join up at the outset, signed the Covenant in March 1920, but she rapidly proved herself a troublesome member. Soon she began to haggle about the amount of her contribution to the League, later raised objections to the cost of the International Labor Office being included in the League's budget. Why El Salvador worries so much about her League dues...
...preparation. With only trifling losses they captured the village of Lopera. Under counterattacks they eventually were forced to retire but Queipo de Llano by talking out of turn had lost a tidy little cache of guns. On the far northern front without unnecessary' talk, three Rightists divisions-the central one 100% Italian-were closing on Santander. This week with a backing of heavy artillery they swept through Reinosa 40 miles to the southwest-the Basques' prime arms manufacturing centre in Santander Province and a prize rich in zinc mines, lignite, lead, oil-sent packing the Leftists as they...
...Millions of years ago a huge lava flow crept across south central Idaho, moving south, filling in canyons, leveling off the countryside. When the flow ceased, the upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...
...diagnoses which he will undergo. An illuminated, numbered call board notifies him in what room and at what instant a Mayo diagnostician will be ready for him. Another system of illuminated call boards notifies every Mayo diagnostician when and where patients are waiting. An interlocking lighting system notifies a central desk of everybody's whereabouts...
...make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus for a Greek lover...