Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
Elected. John Jeremiah Pelley of Savannah, Ga., president of the Central of Georgia Railway; to be president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.; succeeding the late Edward Jones Pearson...
...York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...
Comparable to pre-War England, France, Russia and Germany are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when...
...shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York it has no trackage; it must operate over the lines of the Reading and the Jersey Central roads...