Word: link
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit to the college itself, to its morale, its purpose, can not be minimized. Too often have those who wail against hilarious alumni and the general problem which they create failed to realize that in most cases the colleges have offered them nothing but athletic events as the connecting link with alma mater. This being the case, the college as well as the alumni has suffered. With alumni colleges coming into being, however, a new interest in the college, a more intelligent and appreciative interest, will grow up among the alumni. It will be an interest which will weld...
Cotton Corp. will link the co-operatives directly with the public market, will deal in futures when prices fall, will take over the holdings of the co-operatives to which the Farm Board has already advanced more than 50 million dollars from its revolving fund. Before the new crop comes in (after midsummer) the Board will assign to Cotton Corp. a market manager, a directorate, funds...
...engineers and labor, the largest canal lock in the world, larger than Germany's on the Kiel Canal, larger even than the stupendous U. S. locks on the Panama Canal. Seven million dollars was the cost. The work has taken ten years, forms the last gigantic link in a ship canal connecting Amsterdam with the North Sea and thereby the Atlantic. Extremely farsighted, the Dutch builders have made a lock through which ships of 100,000 tons could pass-though the largest ship in the world today is of less than 60,000 tons, and the Statendam, newest...
Loree Rejection. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week received from its assistant finance director who had examined the matter, a recommendation to reject the plan of Leonor Fresnel Loree, bushy-bearded Delaware & Hudson R. R. president, to build a 344-mile line across Pennsylvania as the main link in a new New York-Chicago Trunk Line. Reason: public convenience did not necessitate the construction cost of $200,000,000; no new traffic would be created...
Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...