Word: connects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French newshawks spent a great deal of time last week trying to connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare...
Western Pacific has not earned its fixed charges for three years. Given a year's time, however, Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...
Everybody agreed that since it was financially impossible to construct the line from Craig straight through to Salt Lake (346 mi.), the next best thing was to build a short line which would connect with the parent Denver & Rio Grande, which does run to Salt Lake. It would save Denver & Rio Grande 173 mi. between the two cities. But neither parent nor child was rich and government aid was not obtained until...
...received the expected declaration from Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov that all members of the Soviet Government and Communist Party remain committed to make every effort for the destruction of all capitalist government. "Appealing to the millions of proletarians outside the Soviet Union," cried Premier Molotov, "we declare that we connect our fight for the victory of Socialism inextricably with the revolutionary struggle of the workers of the world against Capitalism! Our Party [i.e. the Russian Communist Party] is growing and strengthening itself as the vanguard of the Communist International [i.e. the World Communist Party of which the U. S. Workers...
...downs to the Crimson's six, and in rushing, Harvard gained only 48 yards in comparison with the 148 of the Purple ball carriers. In the forward passing department, the same story is true for Harvard completed but four of the 18 aerials attempted, while the visitors managed to connect on eight of their 16. Five of the Crimson's uncompleted passes fell into the waiting arms of Holy Cross secondaries...