Word: connected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does he connect the absence of industry, which would accelerate change, with the state's racial unrest, high infant mortality rate, poor education system, and population loss, as enterprising citizens move north to find jobs...
...Superhighway of the Sun," a four-lane expressway that avoids all cities and villages on its course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...
Scarcely five years out of Yale ('22) when he started his airline, Trippe nursed it with force and farsightedness. Pan Am began as a handful of flying boats shuttling 110 miles between Key West and Cuba; its 73,000 miles of routes now connect 85 nations, and last year's earnings of $33.6 million on $561 million in revenues were the most ever made by any airline. Gray has been in on practically all of this growth. A member of the first group of pilots hired by Pan Am in 1929, he was the first commercial flyer...
...street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while metropolitan areas choke on inadequate roads...
...that because of the state's one year statute of limitations for misdemeanors, he was not exposing himself to further state prosecution, but the Supreme Court ruled that if he had been compelled to testify, he might have furnished "a link in a chain of evidence sufficient to connect him with a more recent crime for which he might still be prosecuted." The court's turnabout served notice on the states that from now on they will be required to honor the stricter federal protection against selfincrimination...