Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drums. In snowy Cambridge, Harvard seismologists estimated the disturbance to be 2,600 mi. away. "You might be interested in knowing," a woman telephoned the New York Times, "that I have just tried to communicate with Los Angeles by telephone. The operator said: 'Sorry, I can't connect you. We're having an earthquake...
...Street, will use the street floor for its store, since the structure it now occupies is to be torn down to make way for a new building to be erected by the University as an extension to Kirkland House. It is understood that plans for this extension, which will connect two wings of Kirkland House, have already been completed and that construction will begin soon. The University bought the land on which the Dunster House Book Shop stands some time ago with this purpose in mind...
...began to fight. He was 67, but with no idea of retiring. Backed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the second generation of Harrimans, he began planning a big system in the Southwest, another system to connect his Kansas City Southern and D. & H. In 1927 the Interstate Commerce Commission turned thumbs down on his Southwestern plan, holding that K. C. S. was too small a base for a financial pyramid...
...steamship service between Savannah, Boston and Manhattan. The first section of the road was finished in 1833. It ran between Savannah and Macon (191 mi.) and was the longest railway in the U. S. Outstanding against it are $58,000,000 worth of bonds. At Birmingham its lines connect with those of Illinois Central which owns all of its common stock. These holdings have been pledged with the R. F. C. as collateral on a loan to Illinois Central. President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central said the receivership did not affect his company "in the least. . . . Our only interest...
...Avco board chairman, was succeeded by his friend Banker Lehman (TIME, Oct. 31). About the same time Harold Ellstner Talbott Jr. resigned the North American Aviation chairmanship. His place was filled by George Newell Armsby, chairman of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. which sponsored North American. Guessers everywhere tried to connect the two resignations with the presence of Mr. Cord. But, as for Banker Harriman, the explanation lay in his newly acquired chairmanship of the Union Pacific Railroad-a return, after ships and airways, to his father's tracks...