Word: connect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nickel. Under Guy, the Rothschilds have also built France's biggest private uranium mining company, which supplies some of the raw material for De Gaulle's force de frappe. And it was de Rothschild Freres that drafted the plan for financing the Channel tunnel that will connect France with Britain...
Actually .the Justice Departments concern goes back much farther. A grand jury impaneled last year turned up evidence enough to prompt an investigation of steel-price rises dating to 1956. Justice is trying to connect these price increases not to formal meetings and written agreements among policy-making steelmen, but to informal contacts on the golf links or at trade meetings. Presumably, however, Bobby Kennedy's men also hope to dissuade other industries from raising prices and kicking off an inflationary spiral during an election year, and to persuade labor unions that the Kennedy Administration is not "soft...
Reportedly, however, the committee will restrict itself to these practical particulars and not attempt any broader investigation of the Houses themselves. One Faculty member, nevertheless, expressed the hope that Elder's group would eventually connect its present investigation with a re-evaluation of the House system itself...
...first to connect his home with the power was Harry Franke, 40. A onetime truck driver, Franke moved into the Yaak with his family three years ago to exchange the nerve-wracking tumult of Chicago life for a small cattle spread. "I didn't know how to live without electricity," says his wife Bonnie, "but we had to learn." The Frankes used kerosene lamps, traded their electric refrigerator for one that ran on propane gas, swapped their radio for an old battery set. Says Bonnie: "The ironing baffled me for a time, but I finally found a couple...
Last week, after two years of discussion, an Anglo-French committee of government transport experts endorsed a plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...