Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union to which Grober belonged and three men who had sat with him on a committee and were accused of "not exposing Grober." Grober's younger brother and sister were not only expelled from the Young Communist League but also from school. Last week the Moscow Central Party Committee scorchingly rebuked the Rostov Party Committee and ordered general reinstatement of all those "punished." Moscow had discovered that the charge against Grober dated from nine years ago when some remarks favorable to Trotsky were heard to fall from his lips...
...Despite the new drastic speed-laws, you can travel in New York State at 65 to 80 miles per hour . . . and not get a 'ticket!' . . . Travel by New York Central...
Author Tunis likewise surveyed the reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon...
Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
...personal reasons - he and his family have become confirmed Philadelphians - and partly to the course of empire. The mail order business is by nature best designed for rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck in 1925 to begin opening retail stores. By 1929 it had upwards of 300 stores, today 400. This year...