Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt For Willkie South Atlantic 66.5% 16.4% East South Central 64.8 11.1 West South Central 62.8 15.9 Mountain States 39.3 39.3 East North Central 38.8 45.1 New England 40.6 47.2 Pacific Coast 37.0 51.1 Middle Atlantic 35.9 52.6 West North Central...
...France's econ omy was chiefly a question of finding men to do the work. One of the points that Marshal Pétain discussed with the Armis tice Commission was the return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized 100,000 workers...
...this Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco broke off diplomatic relations with Chile. The Spanish Foreign Ministry called Chile's Popular Front Government "anarchical" and declared that on June 17 "in the most central square in Chile . . . orators had the vileness grievously to insult Spain and its glorious Caudillo in a speech broadcast by the official radio and at which were present the President of the Republic and several Ministers...
...islands of the Bahamas protect it, forming a tactical screen, an ideal area for submarines, destroyers, advanced aircraft bases. Except for attack by an overwhelming naval force, the Florida passage is invulnerable. Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy's leased station on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, only a few miles from the rusting hulls of Cervera's armada...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...