Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Kansas City Southern R. R. cut its wheat rate 7 cents per 100 Ib. from midwest points to gulf ports. Wheat exporters were ready to leap with joy. Then eastern railroad executives (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Lehigh Valley) met in Washington, recognized "an emergency of national proportions," volunteered to cut their freight rates from the Mississippi Valley to North Atlantic seaports on wheat for export. The reductions per bushel (60 Ib.) would be: 2 cents from Buffalo, 4 cents from Chicago, 5 cents from St. Louis...
Loves of Casanova (French). Cut from 17 to seven reels, colored by hand, mercilessly expurgated, these episodic reminiscences of an 18th Century confidence-man invoke a dreariness entirely foreign to the life of the central character, but occasionally relieved by witty and good-humored subtitles written in the first person. Best shot: Casanova kissing a woman's hand...
...sales campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed is the discovery of the quickest way of exploiting our acknowledged pre-eminence as producers of high quality goods...
...collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton and his associates (loosely referred to as the "Eaton interests") have holdings in Republic Iron & Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Inland Steel, Central Alloy Steel & Otis Steel?a steel group with an aggregate ingot capacity equal to about 70% of U. S. Steel's output...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...