Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic policy on Germany, though more specific than its political policy, has suffered from a basic contradiction. In the U.S. zone, Germans have been given no real opportunity for free enterprise, which is the pride of the U.S. system. The Nazi totalitarian system of economic controls and central checkups has been retained. We are not even showing the Germans what the American-type economy is like, or removing barriers so they could learn its advantages for themselves...
...zone's central economic planning is not as well administered as the Nazis' was. OMGUS drew up a central plan for allocation, supply and production for the U.S. zone. Then it allowed so many exceptions that scores of individual, unrelated factories make products not called for in the original plan, using a lot of hard-to-get, expensive raw materials. This leaves little foreign exchange to buy the imports which the central plan called for. The central plan has now largely collapsed...
...after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops did nothing but stand and watch...
...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...greatest timesavers for customers in Foley's new store is a chute system to deliver packages to a central claim desk. Buyers do not have to wait or load themselves down, but pick up all their packages at one time...