Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travelers in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal could count on a baffling summer. The New York Central R.R. will continue to operate on Standard time, while the New York, New Haven & Hartford this week will switch over to Daylight Saving. Sixty-three clocks in Grand Central are being refitted with two hour hands: a black one for Standard, a red one for Daylight...
...many ways, Fontainebleau functioned like a real headquarters. Its brisk brass was efficiently sectioned off into Unilion (Montgomery's central command), Uniterre (land command under French General de Lattre de Tassigny), Unimer (sea command under French Vice Admiral Jaujard), and Uniair (air command under Britain's Air Marshal Sir James Robb). The only trouble was that their forces were mostly shadow forces...
...Manhattan's clangorous Sixth Avenue, a block away from verdant Central Park, stands the garlic-scented Chambers Restaurant and Delicatessen. On one side of the establishment is a bar, on the other a counter piled high with salami, liverwurst and jars of borsch. There, greying...
Last week, both the West's chancelleries and Eastern Europe's cafes were once more abuzz with such speculation. The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party had announced that Premier Georgi Dimitrov, 66, was "on leave," receiving medical treatment in the U.S.S.R. In his absence, hippo-jawed Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Vassil Kolarov would look after the business of running Bulgaria...
Dimitrov had a short run-in with Stalin which was settled only after the Bulgarian Central Committee abjectly confessed that its leadership had been guilty of "boastfulness, lack of modesty, megalomania and a tendency towards luxurious living...