Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. Dr. Edmund Rumpler, 68, Austrian-born designer of Germany's first automobile (1897), builder of the famed Rumpler "Taube" (Dove) scouting planes used by the Central Powers in World War I, pioneer advocate of big-scale transoceanic air service ("Give me wings large enough and sufficient motive power and I'll take the earth for an airplane ride"); of heart disease; in Mecklenburg, Germany. After the advent of Nazi power, Designer Rumpler was non-Aryan enough to be benched, big enough to remain in Germany...
Following a student council report published in the spring of 1937, this central administration of House athletics was established so as to cut down on the number of defaults in House contests and to interest more men in the program...
...last year's steam pipe system caused a great deal of air radiation, it had to be discarded in favor of some wiring system. While the actual method that will be employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings...
...years he headed more roads, introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat of mighty New York Central. Widely read, a quoter of Spengler and Ortega y Gasset. he wrote an authoritative book on railroads, another on anthracite. His motto: "Be audacious." His battlecry: "Management is notoriously underpaid...
...Before the week's end the average was up to 134.54, only 14 points below where it had been before it fell in May with Flanders. Index of last week's market spirits: money was going back into the highest-grade disappointment of recent years, New York Central common (up 11 points), and other more frankly speculative rails...