Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week is national Fire Prevention Week in the U. S. To publicize this observance the National Geographic Society issued a "bulletin" from which it appeared that Ahun, a town of 2,000 souls in central France, has had no fire for 600 years; that Holland, in which most buildings are of brick, suffers a smaller annual fire loss than Cleveland. The Society spoke favorably of such modern control methods as fireproof wood (TIME, Jan. 20) and the copper-tube detector which has been installed in the White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg...
...schoolteachers, who had been organizing their 375 colleagues into a Teachers' Association and were trying to pet an A. F. of L. charter, had been fired for "incompetence, outside activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County's Central Labor Union Council, having unsuccessfully demanded the dismissal of crusty School Superintendent Albert Sidney Scott, had called a good share of the county's 17,000 schoolchildren noisily out on strike...
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...York Central 48 21 1/4 New York, Chicago & St. Louis...
...miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In Guatemala, where the Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress by which United Fruit would strengthen its already strong hold upon International Railways...