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Word: centralization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Q. E. D. | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Profit & Loss | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First FLASHes | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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