Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Villas province's 30,000-acre Washington Sugar Central, the entire destinies of 4,000 co-op farmers are controlled by a 23-year-old ex-schoolteacher; so far, he has concentrated on sewing lessons for young girls, close-order drill for a "sanitation corps" of boys. The practical effect, says a U.S. plantation foreman, has been to "set Cuban agriculture back five years." In Oriente province INRA plowed up 20,000 acres of ranch land for truck farming-then learned that there was no way to irrigate the parched land...
...explanations. Were Young Lifers imbibing a Bible-belt version of the Gospel, which made their drinking, dancing, smoking parents look like sinners? Said Episcopal Minister Grant Merrill: "The leaders tend in the direction of fundamentalism. They give easy answers to life's most difficult problems. There is one central headquarters in the West. Their workers are trained there for a few weeks or so, but they are not well trained. Then they come to a community without being responsible to anyone but a headquarters, and that headquarters is not responsible to a denomination...
RAIL DIVERSIFICATION into water transport, hitherto denied by the ICC, is sought by Illinois Central and Southern Pacific. The two roads have petitioned the ICC to okay their $9,000,000 purchase of the John I. Hay barge company. ICC will approve the deal, pave the way for other roads to move into competing lines of transport...
...holding company, Alleghany Corp. controls a stock empire whose assets include 20% and working control of the giant New York Central Railroad, 50% of Missouri Pacific Class B stock. 18% of Webb & Knapp real estate firm, plus 24% of the voting stock in Investors Diversified Services, an investment trust worth close to $3 billion. All told, Alleghany's assets amount to $134 million, and they are enough to give any group of managers all the leverage they need to wheel and deal. But last week Alleghany's wheeler-dealers were laid low by a small stockholder...
Phillips, onetime aide of the late Railroader Robert R. Young, was a strategist in Young's successful proxy fight to win control of the New York Central in 1954. But after the Central victory, Phillips fell out with his boss. Since then, he has been at war with everyone connected with Alleghany, first with Young, then with Young's old friend, Alleghany Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67, and all his allies. Phillips' complaint: Alleghany's executives were conducting Alleghany's affairs "primarily in the interests of themselves and a small group of insiders." He argued...