Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cardiff. Total Solids 177 (177) Compare this with - London Total Solids 357 (274) (Central) Glasgow Total Solids 308 (277) (Alexandra Park) Liverpool Total Solids 683 (560) (Netherfield Rd.) Bourneville Total Solids 159 (110) (A showplace garden city...
...about to send down the ways a $200,000, seagoing sampler of his seagoing notions. Light (70 tons), fast (26 knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
...expected to sell for its exclusive coverage from 30 to 75 minutes of air time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...
...industrial averages stood at 131.94, rails at 25.45, utilities at 20.58. Leading stocks showed such gains as U. S. Steel from $43 to $54; U. S. Rubber from $27 to $32; American Tel & Tel from $129 to $142; Chrysler from $42 to $57; N. Y. Central from $11 to $15; Electric Power & Light from $9 to $1 i ; Johns-Manville from $71 to $84; General Motors from $30 to $36. Moody's Commodity Index rose from 136.7 to 140.8. All told, it was the biggest bull movement in any one week since that following the bank holiday...
...spring of 1912 an English-born stripling named Alfred E. Lyon took a train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went...