Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement follows on the heels of President Conant's affirmation, Wednesday of his desire to see the distinction between the A.B. and S.B. abolished. Brinton, however, did not link the Department's decision with president Conant's declaration...
Deputy to Director Vannevar Bush of the OSRD and special consultant to Major General Leslie Groves, Conant was the No. 1 intermediary between scientists, industrialists and military, an indispensable link in building the Bomb. His success in this role does not make Conant altogether happy. He considers control of the Bomb the world's biggest job, flew to Moscow last December, as an adviser to Secretary Byrnes, to discuss with Molotov and the Russians plans for atomic-energy control. While he was there, he added Moscow to the alumni kerosene circuit...
...subsidy to keep American ships afloat, carrying the American flag, and transporting American cargoes. It has long been common knowledge that American goods could reach Europe and the Far East most cheaply aboard freighters carrying the British, Dutch, or Norwegian flags. Further, it has taken no great investigation to link the high standards of life aboard American ships to the high cost of shipping on these same vessels. Forced by union agreement and the realization that sailors are, after all, human beings, American shipping, companies went into peacetime decline, caught inextricably between high costs and fierce-foreign competition...
Isolated Charm. Star Island's chief attraction to both sects is its remoteness. Nine miles from the mainland, it has only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...while Grace steamshippers and Pan Am airmen were happy together. But trouble soon developed between Panagra and one of its parents. Pan Am, the new line discovered, had quietly set up a route of its own from the eastern coast to the U.S.: it became Panagra's only link to its rich U.S. customers...