Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brittle. Even so, trains came into Grand Central Station as much as seven hours late, the Queen Elizabeth's sailing was delayed twelve hours, and 1,300 Brooklyn homes had their supplies of heating gas cut off. In Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and many another city, industrial gas and power supplies were slashed. Detroit's auto plants laid off workers by the thousands. In St. Paul, the cold halted construction work on an ice palace being built for a winter carnival, opening Jan. 31. At 20° below, the ice was too brittle to be cut into uniform blocks...
...Pressure for the repeal of the Neutrality Act has been tremendous, and Congress should act on this demand at its first chance. Then Germany and its cohorts will have been warned that America will not watch one man steal, without chastisement, the whole of Central Europe." (September...
...during my career on the CRIMSON that the famous case of the scrubwomen occurred. I don't recall the details now, but the central issue was that Harvard was paying a certain group of scrubwomen less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague...
...county's Democratic Central Committee met there to steer its course for 1948. Perhaps no political organization has fewer inhibitions or more inner tensions than the Central Committee. Its 225 members are a rare assortment of Upton Sinclairites, Socialists, Communists, PCAsters, Hollywood leftists, Roosevelt New Dealers and Ed Pauley conservatives. Their meeting was not serene...
Last week, in the musty halls of Caracas' Central University, 39-year-old Arnoldo Gabaldón rose to receive a nation's thanks. Flanked by six cabinet ministers, Gabaldón told of what had been done. "We are now able to dominate this great plague of the nation," he said. "In all probability we will be the first tropical country to defeat the disease...