Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Neighbor was still willing to leave to the conference table. But even its outlines raised plenty of questions, north and south of the Rio Grande. Two different views had emerged last week. The Department of Commerce envisaged a U. S.-subsidized-and-managed pool of all export commodities, under central control...
...Germany will occupy roughly all territory north and west of Tours in west-central France, will thus control Paris as well as all western seaports. All rights of occupation except local administration are to be maintained by the troops stationed there, with France to pay the costs of occupation...
...prosperity seemed to be the Nazi schedule for Hitler-Europe last week as Germany began preparations for exploiting current and anticipated conquests. Flushed with confidence of an early and complete victory, Nazi economic experts proclaimed the dethroning of gold and announced the future domination of world trade by a centrally controlled Kontinental-Mittel-europäischer-Wirtschaftsraum (Continental-Central-European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations with a cash guarantee...
Last week hardworking, hearty Painter Fiene finished his most ambitious job: two murals for the auditorium of Manhattan's Central High School of Needle Trades. Biggest uninterrupted murals in the U. S. (17 ft. by 65 ft. each), they teem with 200-odd overneat, idealized figures (53 portraits), tracing the history of the needletrades industry, from immigrant and sweatshop to labor unions and built-in swimming pools...
Like a zoo, the mammoth Main Hall (where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers...