Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Beautiful Princess. Luxembourg, a half-size Delaware, is the portal between Central and Western Europe; six miles east is Imperial Trèves (Trier to the Germans), from which the Romans ruled their Western Empire. Since Roman days no war in western Europe has passed Luxembourg by, and each war has given the country a new hero or martyr...
...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...
...British and French doctors expect no epidemics of typhus, typhoid or cholera. Although there is no effective remedy for any of these diseases, all can be prevented by sanitary precautions. British soldiers are given inoculations against smallpox, tetanus, typhoid. But a titanic task faces the doctors of Germany and Central Europe...
...year from 70,000 owned, 300,000 leased acres of Southern pine. As president and manager of A. T. F. A. he has: 1) borrowed $21,500,000 (1938-39) to tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing the A. T. F. A. seal and pine tree symbol; 4) cut gum turpentine production 25%; 5) sought new uses for turpentine and rosin...
...Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...