Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus with clear, direct inclusiveness runs the central clause of a new treaty between the U. S. and Panama. Portions of the treaty leaked out (TIME, Aug. 9); but only last week was the full text released at Washington...
...Latin American dissatisfaction at the United States policy in Latin-America is likely to increase as the significant southward march of the great North American colossus dawns upon the nations of Central and South America...
Chicago thus had authority for its ditch 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide from Utica, Ill., to Grafton, Ill.-but no authority to fill it with lake water. Army officials, uninterested in sectionalism but keen for a central U. S. waterway, believed that the Secretary of War could furnish the necessary authority. That, said Ohioans and others, remains to be adjudicated...
Radio Television. Before the St. Louis section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Consulting Engineer Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson of the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, described his progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes...
...sales genius too. When the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland contemplated its present 21-story bank and office building, President Bernet got the business of hauling the construction material. That was a triumph. But it lasted briefly, for the late President Alfred Holland Smith of the New York Central heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through the Union Trust Co., so President Smith rushed to Cleveland, angry. Nickel Plate President Bernet did not contend with New York Central President Smith. They shared. President Bernet's removal to the Erie leaves space...