Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Java in 1942. But Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, piecing together what he had learned of Koenigswald's findings, reported them in Science. He pronounced the discovery the most important in anthropology since Eugene Dubois dug up Pithecanthropus erectus, the "missing link" between men and apes, in Java...
...Seized almost all of the roadbed which in a few months would link Tokyo by rail and ferry with Hankow in middle China...
...Navy strategist, and a poor sailor as well. But he conceived his job to be that of a civilian link between the Navy and the nation, not a teacher of admirals. Mostly he bustled about, trying to instill his own brand of peppy patriotism into war workers and servicemen alike. As the Navy's most-traveled Secretary, he visited Pearl Harbor a few days after December 7, and saw Guadalcanal, England and the Mediterranean...
...step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link was welded Feb. 18 near Macmillan, astride the Arctic continental divide. This week brass hats celebrated the completion of the refinery...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...