Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least interesting of these are the popular excursions to Montreal established by the N. Y. Central and the New Haven. The fare has been set at the extraordinarily low figure of $10, up and back, with the result that 2,003 persons patronized the experiment...
Publicity. The next important and highly controversial subject was the publication of statistics. U. S. Representative Burton would not hear of a League Central Publicity Board. The other nations would not hear of any other board. The matter was settled by leaving publicity to the nations concerned, which are morally bound to publish, within two months after each quarter, all sales of warships, armored cars, airplanes, airships, firearms (except sporting guns as distinct from rifles) and ammunition. In the case of States contiguous to Russia, permission was given for them, if they so desired, to reserve the obligation of publishing...
...Evangelist G. A. Dunn Jr., spoke to a capacity audience at the Central Church of Christ, Wednesday evening, on 'Why Instrumental Music Should Not Be Used in the Worship.' The speaker essayed to show that the Bible is specific in its use of terms, and not general; and, furthermore, because an instrument is proper in the home or heaven does not justify its use in the church today...
...satisfied. That Britain would aid her against German aggression was preeminently satisfactory, but that Britain would aid Germany against France if she were compelled to send troops over the Rhineland to aid her ally Poland or Czechoslovakia was unthinkable. Whatever France did, she would not desert her allies in Central Europe...
...come into the consolidation and where business volume and size make them an important factor in the business. It is understood that with the "Big Three" of these "independent companies-Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison and Philip Carey & Co.-arrangements have been made to prevent their products interfering with a central leadership and control of the asbestos market aimed at by the new consolidation...