Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every pro-war citizen in the central wheat basin there are six in the South...
Directors of the Whitney Museum did not know whether they were more tickled over their sensational new indirect lighting system, their four new rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey...
...Rail bonds (mostly in danger of default) found war a boon, for war traffic might hoist many a railroad back to solvency. Typical reactions: during the week, Southern Pacific's 4^3 of 1968 went from 40^ to 48^, the 4^5 of 2013 of the New York Central from" 44! to 55^; the Dow-Jones average from...
...Britain, the Ministry of Labor set up a Central Register of Persons with Scientific, Professional, Technical or Higher Administrative Qualifications. Persons so qualified who want to help the Allies win the war send in their names to the register. Government departments and industries send in their demands for trained personnel. The Central Register officials then match qualifications against demands, suggest a specific person for a specific job. If mutually satisfactory, the appointment is made. At week's end a large but undisclosed number of scientists had registered but few allocations had been put through...
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...