Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shortly after that incident, the Princetonian reported, "the central head-quarters committee decided that too many people were on the porch without legitimate reason. They closed the doors and kept a careful tab on who went in and out. This immediately gave rise to the idea that the porch was a 'cage.' Even the men not in clubs began referring to themselves as 'cagers...
...knows the music so well that he understands the composer's unconscious logic, the critic is ready to write an "analytical score" that isolates and interweaves the composition's various themes, phrases, harmonies and rhythms, thereby demonstrating how they relate to each other and to the central idea. The analytical score is played as a series of interludes after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern slides of different portions...
...United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that in 1954 the Government filed an antitrust suit against it, charging that the company controlled the banana lands of Central America and monopolized the banana trade. Last week, on the eve of a trial in New Orleans Federal District Court, United agreed to a consent decree under which it will create a new competitor...
...stems a year, about 35% of United's imports in 1957. Managerial personnel must also come from United. The decree restricts United from acting as a processor or jobber with in the U.S., and orders it to get rid of its holdings in International Railways of Central America, which owns the main railroad in Guatemala and El Salvador...
...United Fruit's president in 1951. To Redmond the decree is a green light for plans on the shelf since 1954. Last year United Fruit leased a million-acre concession from the Panamanian government to drill for oil; it hopes now to look over other mineral resources in Central America. After the announcement last week, investors sent United Fruit from 39⅝ to 43 on the New York Stock Exchange. They noticed, as President Redmond points out, that no provision of the decree materially affects United Fruit's foreign operations, and "there are no provisions which deny...