Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ruthless Jimmy Hoffa had thought and fought his way from a 32?-an-hour job as a warehouse worker to become a vice president of the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters and head of the I.B.T.'s Central Conference, with 500,000 members of about 340 locals in a twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even...
Other lawyers and bankers in central Kansas, now figuring the same way, have flocked to real-estate offices in search of "bankable" land, pushed the prices fast enough to give Brown a $10-an-acre profit if he were to sell out today...
...Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return for 20% of its imports. Added to these items of resentment was anger at rampant government corruption. By last week, military commanders had proclaimed a series of bloodless revolts and separatist movements that left the central government in effective control of only the island of Java and a small section of north central Sumatra...
Died. Dr. Israel Rudolf Kastner, 50, Hungarian Jewish leader, and central figure in a lacerating controversy in Israel over charges of wartime collaboration with the Nazis (TIME, July 11 1955); of bullet wounds inflicted by terrorists on March 4; in Tel Aviv...
Although the greatest part of his published work has been in the field of Roman art, the central concern of his life has been the complexity and meaning of Greek art. This study he feels can only be approached by an extremely mature scholar, and he is only now beginning a book in this field. The opposite of the caricature of the German scholar of minutiae, Professor von Blanckenhagen makes a great effort to expose the general terms and standards which the art of the period expresses--the "image of man" as he calls it--but he insists...