Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of Nazi occupation, when BBC broadcasts brought Czechoslovakia's only hope of freedom.) Mass arrests continued. Premier Gottwald's "action committees" seized most factories not yet nationalized; they occupied all the ministries not yet in charge of Communists. President Benes wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Czech Communist party: "I have been thinking ... I am trying to see clearly. ... I feel the people's will is to achieve a progressive and really socialist life through peaceful and orderly means. . . . You know my sincerely democratic creed. I cannot but stay faithful to this creed...
...Central Committee," read the reply, "cannot enter into negotiations...
...Sixth Day. Said Gottwald: "If anybody thinks that an exchange of leaders is enough, and otherwise everything may remain as before, he is mistaken. .. ." The Communists proceeded to consolidate their victory. The Central Action Committee formally declared itself "the center of all public life." The purge of "negatively disposed" politicians, judges, editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova...
...situation to be so dark that there exists in China a fuse leading to a huge bomb, and that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning a now economy when the present one undergoes complete collapse; and 3) a member of the Consulate staff, recently back in this country . . . told...
Abolishing fixed partitions, central stockrooms (each department has its own), and installing direct package delivery to customers' autos, they built a country-club-like store that started a new trend in stores. Expected to gross $7,500,000 a year, the store, which opened last fall, is now operating at an annual rate of $16 million. Bullock's was so pleased that it hired Walt & Welt to design two more branches at Palm Springs and Westwood...