Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masks will not be distributed wholesale throughout Britain but will be kept in central storehouses in every village and town. "Local authorities," read last week's announcement, "will provide facilities where masks may be tried on and fitted. It is hoped that the public will take advantage of the opportunity...
Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...
...schedule. The Corporation pays ordinary performers poorly but will go as high as $2,500 for a broadcast by someone like Maurice Chevalier. Best thing done by B. B. C. is the production of radio drama. News bulletins are supplied by Reuter, Exchange Telegraph Co., Press Association and Central News. When B. B. C. got a scoop on the announcement of the Duke of Gloucester's engagement (TIME, Nov. 11). the Press yowled so loudly that everyone concerned agreed that such a thing should never happen again...
...their present business. That excess could support a credit expansion of at least $30,000,000,000. It is the threat of such credit inflation that gives bankers like Chase National's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating that the total will be about $3,400,000,000 by mid-August. This will be merely a delayed rise, since the real cause of mounting bank reserves...
...great section of New Spain. An energetic, restless, fast-traveling administrator, he introduced wheat-growing and cattle-ranching into the desert areas, became one of the most vital of the Jesuits who kept up the great chain of missions from the head of the Gulf of California to Central America...