Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheng Ch'i's world news is provided by radio cable from Nationalist China's Central News Agency in Taipei; many of its features come from 40 uniformed correspondents in forward posts; its local news is gathered by two fulltime reporters. Counting delivery boys, Cheng Ch'i's staff numbers 70. Average salary: $10 a month, plus free firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, clothing and cigarettes...
...office building needed to house UNESCO's 1,080 permanent employees, Breuer found a functional solution: a Y-shaped structure (without air conditioning) that would give maximum light and air for the 600-odd offices. The elevators, stairs and toilets were grouped in a central service core at the axis of the prongs. To cut down glare from floor-to-ceiling windows, Breuer incorporated a variety of sunshade devices (horizontal sun-louvers, vertical slabs, extended brackets holding panes of thermal glass) that varied according to the various sun conditions and enriched the façades with glittering patterns...
...Demand. The failure is not confined to American and its pilots. It is industrywide. Last week even the stewardesses at little Lake Central Airlines (2,281 route miles in the Midwest) were striking for higher pay. (But this time the pilots, who had helped organize the stewardesses, walked through their picket line and kept flying; the pilots also own stock in the line.) Pan American World Airways also faces union trouble. Its A.L.P.A. pilots want up to $45,000 a year jet pay, have already forced a slowdown in jet schedules to Europe because they refuse to fly without...
...sprang back at more bullish estimates of steel production in the weeks ahead. Better October earnings for railroads snapped back railroad stocks. Pennsylvania reported $4,026,319 in October earnings, highest for any month this year and more than twice last October's earnings; New York Central had its best month since December 1956, with earnings of $4,674,110. At week's end the market was almost back where it started...
...first appeared, were sold out almost immediately; a paperback edition of half a million sold out in one day. The Yershov Brothers bears some resemblance to Not by Bread Alone in its plot and its factory setting, but unlike Dudintsev, Kochetov will never have to make apologies to the Central Committee for inaccurate descriptions of Socialist life. His book is a sharp attack on those who tried to "take advantage" of the Party's 1956 leniency; intellectuals in general get a sound thrashing...