Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exports to South and Central America increased approximately 30% over the previous year, representing a greater increase than with any other of the principal geographic divisions of the world...
...That this trade was reciprocal is indicated by the fact that the imports to this country were in even greater volume. In fact, South America, Central America and adjacent countries constituted one of the three great divisions in which imports to the United States exceed exports...
...Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
...numerous plans and suggestions worked out in these committees, and decided upon by the Council are carried out by the permanent offices of the C. I. E. At the present time there are such permanent offices in Brussels where the central office is located and in London, where is placed the main office of the Travel Department with a continental branch in Paris. The latter was instituted especially for the convenience of the American tours which are to take place this summer. The Commission of Sports is in Paris: the Bureau of Scientific Motion Picture Films in Zurich...
...problem of text books is a very difficult one especially for students in Central and Eastern European countries with their low rates of exchange. An added complication is that we do not have the excellent library system in existence in the United States. Our Warsaw bureau has done a fine piece of work in providing a great number of students in these countries with the chief English, French, and German text books...