Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountain pueblo named Boaco, in the department of Chontales, Nicaragua. This Central American stronghold is where General Jose Maria Moncada, chief of the Liberal forces, delivered his arms to my marines on May 13. In wet weather it is reached by horse or pack-mule only. Occasionally an aeroplane drops mail to us. However the mail reaches us, the periodical which I first open is TIME, short, snappy, to the point, a mental feast. Critics to the contrary notwithstanding. I still persist in reading TIME from p. 1 to the bitter end. Please do not permit our great friend...
...work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
...Vienna, all was peaceful down the broad, leafy boulevards. But at the Central Cemetery, the Super-Reporter found a scene worthy of his typewriter. He mentally jotted down a neat phrase?"a mass burial for men and women who died in a mass movement"?and squared off to gather the scene's color and emotion...
Despite the miners' strike since April 1 in central U. S. soft coal fields (TIME, April 11), 272,663,000 tons were mined between Jan. 1 and June 30, stated the Department of Commerce last week. During the same period last year, when there happened to be no strike, 267,506,000 tons were mined. On April 1 there were 80,000,000 tons in storage; last week there were somewhat more than 40,000,000 tons. Non-union mines are reported as working below capacity, yet filling all current orders as they come in. The implication is that...
Although I. C. C. Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman approved the B. & O. stock issue, he struck at railroads clinging to their private bankers, as the B. & O., the St. Paul, the Union Pacific, or the Illinois Central to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the Sante Fe, Great Northern to J. P. Morgan & Co. Said Commissioner Eastman: "I question seriously, whether there is any sufficient reason why a railroad like the Baltimore & Ohio should give any group of bankers a monopoly of its financing...