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Word: centralization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside the China border. There, miles from civilization of any sort, they found a community of 15 U. S. experts, their families, nearly 1,000 Chinese workers, living in a modern town with electric lights, running water, bungalows, playgrounds, and a $4,000,000 plant of U. S.-owned Central Aircraft Co. which will produce fighting planes to help China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Route, New Factory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Britain's September retail trade rose 14%, for in the provinces buying zoomed a whopping 30% over last year: people were staying in the country, in the suburbs and buying there, not in central London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Out of Oxford Street | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

From 1909 to 1931 the common stock of Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey never paid less than $10 annually. Bluest of blue chips, the rich, little (1,155 miles) anthracite road had skipped only eleven dividends since it began operations in 1848. For 25 years (1905-30) the stock seldom sold below 200. In 1912 it hit a peak of 395; in 1928 another of 375. Last week it could be bought for 5. Sic transit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: The Power to Tax . . . | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...last week Jersey Central went bankrupt, joined 81 roads (over 31% of U. S. railroad mileage) that have gone into receivership since 1931. Driven to the wall by seven consecutive whopping deficits, its first eight months' operations this year showed a $2,709,000 net loss. Of its once lush freight business, about 50% was coal and 40% manufactured goods, and neither recovered from Depression I. With heavy fixed charges on a bonded debt of $51,198,000, the strain of depression was too much. But the straw that broke Jersey Central's back was taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: The Power to Tax . . . | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...bill for that period. It had paid the rest. Month ago the State threatened to go to court to collect its bill for 1932-1933 ($7,230,000 of taxes, penalties & interest). With only $2,360,000 cash on hand to meet the tax bill, Jersey Central escaped to the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: The Power to Tax . . . | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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