Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Rowland Blades, Baron Ebbisham, onetime (1926-27) Lord Mayor of London and Alderman for the Ward of Bassishaw, was the only dissenting member of a board of five which last week enthusiastically endorsed the long-shelved project to build a 20-odd-mile tunnel under the English Channel, connect London and Paris by rail. Not so Lord Ebbisham. Pressed for reasons, he contented himself with remarking ominously: "The displacement of sailors on the Cross-Channel Route would be regrettable...
...Except where a house has definite control of a railroad, it is often misleading to connect the two. Last week the New York Sun summarized the standing of Kuhn, Loeb and J. P. Morgan in the railroad field as follows: J. P. Morgan & Co. are now leading railroad bankers, being bankers for 25 railroads with approximate mileage of 92,000 miles or 38% of the class 1 roads, having a total capital of $7,275,00,000; Kuhn. Loeb are bankers for 16 roads with a mileage of 79.000 miles or 32.6% of the class 1 roads, with a total...
...entirely new theory of language which seeks to put the "stream of spoken language" on a physical, psychological, and mathematical basis, and to connect it with current theories of relativity, has been advanced by Mr. G. K. Zipf 4G in a thesis which will appear in the present issue of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology...
...been to Montreal to arrange for two more U. S.-Canadian air mail services and for the passage of Canadian mail through U. S. territory. The existing U. S.-Canadian routes are between Montreal and Albany, Toronto and Buffalo and Vancouver and Seattle. Next month a new line will connect Minneapolis-St. Paul to Winnipeg by way of Fargo and Grand Forks, N. Dak. As soon as that route operates smoothly, Great Falls, Mont., and Regina, Sask., will be joined. Those routes are for international mail. The purely Canadian mail will leave Canada at Windsor, Ont., travel from Detroit...
...Inauguration of a non-transfer boat train service from New York to San Francisco to connect with the Hawaii-bound Matson liner Malolo...