Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, Reading, Central of New Jersey, Lehigh & Hudson, Lehigh & New England, and Pennsylvania...
...Collier's sent him to France and Belgium in 1914, to Central Europe in 1915, to Russia in 1916-17, to France in 1918, to the Baltic in 1919. More recently he visited the Baltic States and Poland for The New York Evening Post, and went to Russia two years ago for the New York Herald Tribune...
Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...
...statistics set forth show that there are two physicians to every 753 people in the U. S. whereas in England there is one physician to every 1,087 and in the Central European countries one physician to every 2,225. North Dakota does poorly, has one to every 1,386; South Carolina one to 1,325: on the other hand, California does well has one to every 455; the District of Columbia one to every 242 Colorado one to 539. New York, Vermont, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, have one to from 600 to 700 people...
...king, who was traveling incognito in a light grey join cloth and modest brown sandals had the misfortune to be recognized everywhere he went. Fleeing at last in desperation to the Grand Central Station, he vanished like smoke. It is believed that by carrying his own luggage he disguised himself as a Pullman porter and is even now collecting small odd specimens of American gold to take back with him to the coast of Africa...