Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retorted the Nationalist radio: "Since their occupation of this area, Communists have methodically destroyed dikes. With floods coming they are wildly firing accusations against the Central Government . . . We hope they will show a sense of humanity and withdraw . . . This will permit water conservancy organizations to proceed with their work...
...English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers filled to overflowing." Said another English girl: "The overwhelming friendliness is the most striking thing about America. Central heating is next...
...Georgia's "wool hat" country, the Central of Georgia Railway Co. was as poor as its riders. Its battered, rickety old engines clattered from Atlanta to Savannah and Columbus, hardly making enough to pay their fuel bills. But last year the Central threw away its wool hat. It raised $1,242,527, bought two streamlined trains, the Man 0' War and Nancy Hanks II, plugged them with ads and free-excursion trips for children. Last week the Central totted up its gain. In one year, the trains had made $206,829, enough to put the Central...
...roads have put into service 1,529 new passenger cars, now run some no streamlined trains (more than 220, counting extra sections). Another $1 billion in new cars and trains has been ordered. The roads that lacked the cash to buy new cars slicked up their old ones. The Central Railroad of New Jersey fitted out four cars in different styles. It got its commuters to choose the style they liked, and is planning to redecorate all its cars to match...
...most spectacular of the new trains is scheduled to make its maiden run next month, when the New York Central System shows off its new $4,000,000 Twentieth Century Limited, the Central's first new Pullman streamliner in ten years. For the New York-Chicago run, the Central has designed a combination businessman's hotel and office, with showers, secretarial rooms, and telephones...