Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...
...launched the theory that revolutionized physics by destroying the age-old idea of absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...
...When tear-jerking Announcer Gabriel Heatter got to Mr. X there was a foggy sob in his voice. "On the afternoon of June 25, 1931," he lamented, "to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, police brought a well-dressed man who had collapsed on a city street. . . . Somewhere, somehow the link that bound him to the past had snapped. . . . The man became known as Mr. X and that man stands beside me tonight...
...when times had changed, C. I. O. adherents captured many posts in U, S. Steel's E. R. P. They brazenly howled for higher wages, and set up an inter-plant council to link hitherto isolated "locals." Just how much of a nuisance this might have become U. S. Steel never learned. Having digested the Wagner Act, Big Steel suddenly dissolved its E. R. P., recognized C. I. O. Most of the industry followed suit, and today some operating men think that C. I. O. is cheaper and more satisfactory than...
Louis, Evansville and the soft-coal fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week...