Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Engaged. Marguerite Johnson, 32, teacher in the Rock Island, Ill. Central Junior High School; and North Dakota's isolationist junior Senator, Gerald P. Nye, 47. Senator Nye's first wife divorced him last March...
...central sector the Italians drove a wedge into Greece which was eventually intended to turn southward and meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were...
...masonry that minutes before had been Bucharest's elite, 13-story Carlton apartment house. More than 300 were believed buried in its ruins. A few gained the air-raid cellar and called frantically for aid over a still live telephone wire. Then the oil tanks of the central-heating plant exploded, bathing the rubble in flames. Nearly 100 prisoners saw the walls and ceiling of their cells cave in on them as the Doflana prison was shaken to the ground. Thousands of German troops. Iron Guardists, Rumanian soldiers and civilians worked frantically to extricate victims...
Jorge Ubico has made Guatemala the glamor girl of the Central American Republics. He has reduced the national debt 50%, has got his paper currency covered 100% by gold, has built and paid for public works. He has granted the Indians property rights, their own courts, their own military uniforms. But taxes are high, and Indians who cannot pay are forced to work their taxes out on Government projects...
...boat. Early this week this boat was ready to rise from Lake Pontchartrain's dirty waters, point its nose southward over the green Gulf of Mexico. To outsiders it was the first Government-approved flight across the Gulf, and it presaged triweekly air service between New Orleans and Central America over a new short-cut route. But to insiders it was the bell for Round II of one of the hottest industrial fights since Harriman v. Hill. The fight: American Export v. Pan American...