Word: connect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another day of police investigation failed to connect Harvard men with propagandizing school children yesterday, as David Grant, State Secretary of the Young Communist League, and the executive committee of the University chapter issued statements flatly denying that Harvard men were involved, and attacking Mayor Lyons' stand...
Grand yesterday afternoon said, "The attempt of Mayor Lyons to connect Harvard students with the work of the Cambridge branch of the Young Communists League has no foundation in fact and is merely an attempt to further embarrass Harvard University because of their appointment of Granville Hicks...
...upstate New York, organized Standard Oil Co., left John D. Rockefeller to run it and retired to Florida in 1883 with ever mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives and $28,000,000 was the cost of building concrete viaducts across the keys...
Time & again Mr. Loree tried to connect his two roads. Time & again the Commission shook its head. In the 1920s he inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with Pennsylvania, B. & O )., New York Central and C. & O. roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree...
...miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown Tunnel, another pair of tubes under the East River to the Borough of Queens. These additional arteries will channel through traffic from Long Island to New Jersey...