Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business is good." Ralph H. Cameron, senator from Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should decide to run." Frank W. Stearns, who knows the Boston department store...
Sheep. Impoverished at home, France is more and more turning her hopeful attention to the North African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME...
Hookworm. Last year the Rockefeller International Health Board aided health enterprises in 97 states and countries. Hookworm eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Nova Scotian, now of Cleveland, worked last week on the $80,000,000 merger of the Central Steel Co. of Massillon, Ohio, and the United Alloy Steel Corp. of Canton, Ohio. Their combined ingot capacity will Approximate 1,400,000 yearly. They will be the sixth largest steel corporation in the U. S., the very largest specializing in alloy steels...
...secret places under Central Europe's dikes, slipping quietly through the floods out to drowned wheat fields, softly swimming like malicious undines or night-prowling water-sprites of the olden time, went millions and tens of millions of small water-folk rejoicing in a new paradise. Scientists do not believe in fairies, good or bad, but they were quite willing to believe that much of Central Europe's woe was the work of these small water-folk. They were muskrats, common American fur-bearing rodents, fiber zibethicus. In 1903 an enterprising Czech farmer introduced them to the Danube...