Word: linke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania, with 31½% of the area's total trackage, pushes out to Kansas City and Omaha, gets a new Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago-St. Louis link with Wabash. With Norfolk & Western it taps the Pocahontas coal fields, gains a new port to the South. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton forms a useful North-South connection for its main stems...
Baltimore & Ohio, with 20.3% trackage, reaches the Hudson River by Reading and Jersey Central. Alton gives it a Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City link. Western Maryland affords a short-cut between Baltimore and Western Pennsylvania. Ann Arbor taps Michigan. With Lehigh & Hudson, a "bridge road," B. & O. gets around New York City, hooks up with New England. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh opens Western New York...
This agreement was supposed to link Reparations with Disarmament, President secretly agreeing to cancellation of a great part of what Europe owes the U. S. in return for European adoption of his disarmament proposals. If there was such a "gentleman's agreement" last week it is invalid. Congress has tied the Administration's hands, explicitly forbidding cancellation of another cent (TIME, Dec. 3) Congress might reverse itself, but public opinion throughout Europe seemed firmly and dangerously credulous of the "gentleman's agreement...
...belong together; they cannot live apart; they must be reunited. ... As for overproduction, we have never yet had a sufficient production of all the things which the family needs. . . . But we cannot eat or wear machines. We [must] go to the fields. . . . Industry and agriculture are natural partners. The link between is Chemistry. . . . I foresee the time when industry shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. The farmer will not lack a market and the worker will not lack a job. Our foundations will be once more securely laid in the land...
...that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties of acquaintance which link the seven Houses, and so split the unity of Harvard College. This is the more true because the trend is away from all activities other than those which the House fosters. Of course, such a result is contrary to the desires of those who created and instituted the House Plan...