Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return they could keep their titles, personal property, and get a tax-free pension (7½ to 15% of their states' incomes). More than a dozen, in a midnight ceremony, signed Patel's terms. Next morning, Patel got on a train for Nagpur, capital of the Central Provinces. But Patel's secretary did not turn up. The train waited an hour. A search party sent by Patel found the secretary signing up the remaining maharajas who had balked the night before...
...remaining princely states in India, fewer than 50 have more than half a million people. All the princely states except big Hyderabad (16,000,000) have surrendered control of their defense, communications and transport to the central government...
...fierce Huns and Mongols and Tatars who once swept out of central Asia seemed hardly human to their victims. Few civilized people cared how the devils on horseback might live in their faraway homelands, and little is known of the invaders today...
...York Central Railroad Co. last week placed the year's biggest order for locomotives. They were all diesels-in of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet revolution which has been going on in the Central-and many another U.S. railroad -since war's end. The revolt is against steam locomotives in favor of oil-burning diesels. Of the 1,176 locomotives which U.S. railroads had on order Dec. 1, only 33 were steam. The rest were diesels...
...rejected a Boles report in 1944, when he recommended against Alleghany Corp. control of C. & 0. Even some of Young's enemies privately thought ICC might disregard this Boles report. Young was still confident that by putting public pressure on ICC, he would finally get control of the Central...