Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems were clear. First & foremost, with good will and common sense, order had to be brought into the chaotic, overlapping organization of the continental front against Japan. Another problem was Burma. The men at Chungking certainly weighed the great difficulties of a campaign to re-establish an overland link with China. But, whatever they decided, the Jap had already struck the first blow...
...Queens family gets into the picture when Link Ferris (Dick Powell), a radio-writer who has lost his genius for selling soap, crosses the East River in search of warm human materials. He stumbles upon just that in the person of Bonnie Porter (Mary Martin), a lunch-wagon waitress who sings prettily at her work. Bonnie's heart is so warm that before Link can say Yes-but-I-earn-a-thousand-a-week, she feeds him, takes him home, until his hard luck shall change...
With small ceremony, the U.S. Army Engineers celebrated completion of the biggest job in their blueprints since the Panama Canal. Last week the last link in the Akan Highway was made ready for traffic. "The Road" was finally open: a two-way military highway which is the first all-year land connection of Alaska to Canada...
More likely for future development is the northern half of the Alcan, with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...
...cautious approval was for "air service within Mexico only [and] will cease to be effective if LAMSA extends its operations beyond the borders of Mexico." United officials insisted they had no further ambitions-not even for a new San Diego-to-Nogales route to link the two lines directly. But there was scarcely an airman alive who did not predict: 1) sooner or later LAMSA would compete with Pan Am in more than one Good Neighbor country, and 2) that when it asked for permission to do so, CAB would give it another green light...