Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tracks into Jersey City, although, unhappily for "Uncle Dan," not yet across the Hudson River into New York. President Willard has worked longer and harder than any other man for the Eastern four-system unification plan. Under him Chicago & Alton was taken over as a western B. & 0. link. Last week B. & O. began operating the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburgh as a division of its system...
...fires." New appointee is Kern Dodge, 51, socialite, consulting engineer. Never a politician, Director Dodge has been an executive council member of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. His father James -whom Mark Twain called "the greatest story teller in America"-founded and left his son a large interest in Link-Belt Co. Longtime friend of Mayor-elect Moore, Director Dodge is extremely air-minded. He flew in one of the Wright Brothers' planes in 1912. He. his son and his daughter all hold commercial pilot licenses, a U. S. family record. Politically liberal, actively Wet, Director Dodge promised upon...
Railroad men were surprised by the proposal, did not think the I. C. C. would ever grant permission. Two direct lines link Denver to Southern California at present, the 1,400-mi. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe route and the 1.409-1111. route covered by the Union Pacific. With existing roads doing poorly, the new company will have a hard time proving "necessity and convenience," will have to rely on better arguments than the fact that 860 mi. of new track would mean some $9.000,000 worth of orders for rails alone...
...from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
...length of the arc is diminished, but in sudden jumps-from 1 to 0.94 to 0.86 to 0.80. . . . The changes in subatomic energy occur in lumps, and these changes he found to correspond to the diminishing jumps of Ratio of Arc to Chord. He hoped his theory might link relativity with the Quantum Theory, bring the energy processes of radiation under the relativist's geometrical picture of the universe...