Word: connected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Soo Locks at the eastern tip of Superior and the narrow Straits of Mackinac that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron are the twin bottlenecks through which 85% of the nation's vast iron ore production flows to U.S. blast furnaces. The ore moves eastward to the Soo from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, then southwest to Gary, southeast to Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh...
...cities and hamlets. Because the helicopter can fly straight up, straight down, backward, forward, horizontally, remain stationary in the air, and be brought to an immediate stop, any flat roof surface no larger than 9 by 12 ft. could serve as an adequate air station. Northeast would connect New England towns by direct helicopter service with main-line terminals served by domestic and transoceanic airlines...
...head of this organization Davis' main concern-and job-is to connect OWI with the White House, and with the people. Actually he does nothing much in particular, either way, and this is not necessarily his fault. For, speaking largely, no one has conclusively proved that OWI has fulfilled any of the purposes for which...
...inch, $60,000,000 tube will connect with an almost-finished pipeline from Longview, Tex. to Norris City. By next June it will carry 300,000 bbl. of crude oil a day, do the work of 8,000 tank cars. The oil, said Harold Ickes, will go to: 1) the armed forces and "undoubtedly will hasten a second front"; 2) war production; 3) "basic" (not general) civilian transportation and health needs. Steel for the new line will be taken away from some other war projects, as recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed of by Peter the Great, connect it with the Baltic. The Caspian is a gateway to Baku, to Iran and the outside world. Already Nazi bombers were pounding Volga shipping...