Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legend. The U.P. was conceived in war. In 1862, Lincoln ordered it built to tie the western territories more firmly to the Union. The U.P., main link in the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, has become a lusty, robust American legend...
...carrier planes thundered up again out of the dawn. Some struck Hokkaido (pop. 3,300,000), which had never been bombed before. Some struck northern Honshu. Some struck in Tsugaru Strait, where the railroad and automobile ferries run between Aomori (on Honshu) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido), almost the only link between the two islands...
...railroads, the central link in redeploying troops to the Pacific, the passenger jam now promises to be 10% worse than the record jam of 1944. Said Vinson: "The public is expected to refrain from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said...
...regional chain, one link of stations in a network...
...Havre, transatlantic cable messages are pouring through the Commercial Cable Co.'s operating room, deep in a dark, dank cellar. Divers had patched the broken cable link with the U.S., had removed the mines the Germans planted over the cable bed. But the company could not move its operating offices above ground until a suitable building could be found in badly battered Le Havre...