Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extras, according to Hollywood's Central Casting Corp., had a bad year in 1938. Total extra jobs for the year were 256,336 -approximately 40,000 less than last year. Despite a 10% pay raise, extras' total pay was $2,500,000, against $3,000,000 last year...
...reached after this year's maneuvers, devoted to "Fleet Problem XX," the defense of the eastern shores of the U. S. and (in theory) the Republics of Latin America. An invading "White" fleet will try to outwit defending "Blacks," capture an operating base near the U. S. or Central America. This is no impractical game. Without such a base in Bermuda, the Bahamas or the West Indies, no European invader can get far in the Western Hemisphere. How much of a fleet is necessary in the Atlantic to prevent a foreign navy from gaining a foothold is the question...
...rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long evenings he read Blackstone and the Bard. In 1915 he left his two pupils for the Times, pieced out a cub's salary with the slightly ornithological sideline of running the Central Park swanboat concession. When he went to War his father, then dean of Hunter, supervised John's boat stands. After the War John returned to the Times, married his favorite office telephone girl...
...Paris, police arrested Bernard Tanenzapf, former president of Pathe Cinema,-on charges of embezzling at least $3,660,000. Lean, black-mustached, fiftyish, Bernard Tanenzapf, who also called himself Bernard Natan, started his career somewhere in Central Europe. He arrived in Paris about 1920, organized several small but profitable cinema producing companies, bought out Pathe's founder, Charles Pathe...
...From the AffonsoArinos school at Bello-Horizonte, some 300 miles across the steep slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira range from Rio de Janeiro, last week a boisterous troop of boys raced for the depot of the Central do Brazil railway. They clambered into the nine creaking wooden coaches and snuggled down for the ecstatic ride home for Christmas. Winding south, the train picked up more passengers including laborers on their way to São Paulo farms...