Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Square: one stop on the MBTA or straight down Massachusetts Ave, on foot or by bus or car. This is the location of the main Post Office, City Hall, and the city's major business district...
Here would be the central "Street of Splendor," which would surpass the Champs Elysées in elegance. At the end of the street would be the new railroad station, more magnificent than Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. There would be the Führer Palace, with a reception hall 500 yards long, and a triumphal arch twice as wide as Napoleon's. Over everything would loom the Kuppelhalle, a domed meeting hall vast enough to enclose St. Peter's Cathedral. "I would never have entered politics," the Führer would sigh, "if I could have...
Three types of barge-carrying ships are being developed. The Acadia Forest, the first of 13 LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessels now being built at a cost of about $21.5 million each, is due to be put into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
...Central Gulf and Lykes officials predict that their barge-carrying ships will pare the round-trip time on transatlantic voyages by half, to 30 days. Since transfers of cargo between barges and oceangoing ships will be eliminated, they also expect the vessels to cut shippers' breakage and pilferage costs, and to reduce the heavy investments many shippers must now make in warehouses and dock facilities...
...Willots have invested little in new equipment. Instead, they have begun spreading into Africa in joint ventures with both the French and local governments. They have set up cotton mills and spinning plants in Bangui (Central African Republic) and Niamey (Niger), and they are negotiating about a third in Bamako (Mali...