Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...Comrade Tito and other members, Central Committee, Communist Party of Yugoslavia...
Gradually, Anne's reputation as an anti-Communist began to spread. Many of her letters were opened. Her dates refused to take her to the central places in Warsaw where they might be seen with her. And one young man, whom she had met at a university dance, "was obviously a member of the secret police assigned to spy on me. The Poles laughed at us for trying to come to terms with the Russians. They're cynical, because they're caught...
...working capital of U.S. roads has dropped $450 million to $705,013,000, a 39% decline. But the return has been worth the price. Though passenger traffic is off as much as 50% from its wartime peak, many streamliners are booked solid. In twelve months the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans grossed its $4,000,000 construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.'s Texas Special are always 90% booked, compared...
...however, ornately produced (in Britain, by a U.S. crew), with more than ordinary feeling for atmosphere; and scene by scene, aside from its central weakness, it is reasonably interesting and sometimes exciting. Ray Milland is helpful in hinting the honesties which no tongue dares to utter. Leo G. Carroll plays Nemesis so well as to make one wish he'd get a chance to play something else. And Geraldine Fitzgerald, who is seen much too seldom, does a fresh and welcome job as the pathetic, unstable old friend whom Miss Todd reluctantly exploits...