Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those parts of Kansas and states of the North Central region where corn is the chief crop, farmers will be told how much corn to plant, get an extra 5% added to their soil-diversion bounty if they obey. If they exceed their planting limit, there will be a deduction for each extra acre. Thus the Department, fearing a surplus which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss...
...first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of U. S. architects trained at Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Institute had begun to show signs of declining into old age. The idea of the founders had been to set up a central agency of architects which would license any group of five or more students as an atelier, project problems for them, judge and grade the resulting drawings...
Even more impressive has been the buying of cars and engines, a type of business which titillates two branches of heavy industry, steel and the equipment makers which use the steel. Fortnight ago New York Central ordered 100 locomotives at one crack, more than were ordered by all railroads last year (83 ). Last week, along with its rails, Atchison ordered 27 locomotives and 3,025 freight cars. Pacific Fruit Express, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost...
...these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look, he adds that the Harvard Forest is no playground for freshmen, but woods in Petersham, Mass. For years the late Professor Fisher has directed the Forest, which makes models to illustrate the forest history of central New England and present-day methods of forestry. Now more models are being made by Mr. Cline for the suggested Fisher Museum of Forestry. All very intricate, but not as much as the work of the men in the studios. Some forming trees of fine copper wire as they look...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...