Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, Chris Jensen turned out the unit in an improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet of water. Chris Jensen got a salvage crew together, yanked the 300-ft. link of barges to the surface, had the motor, running an hour later, cut the usual salvage cost in half...
...destroy installations. Marcus, only five miles around, nevertheless supports three airplane runways, can be used as a base of operations against U.S. submarines, is useful as a link in the air routes to the Marshalls, Gilberts and Wake...
...King, my old friend, may I through you thank the people of Canada for their hospitality to all of us. Your course and mine have run so closely and affectionately during these many long years that this meeting adds another link to that chain. I have always felt at home in Canada, and you, I think, have always felt at home in the United States...
...Above all, Rome, as a center of Italian rail communications, forms an integral link between northern and southern Italy. It was to interrupt this vital line of supplies for Axis armies in the south that U.S. bombers twice blasted Rome's most important railway centers, the San Lorenzo and Littorio yards...
...same period the Russians claimed the capture of 12,418 German officers and men, 621 tanks, 875 guns, 2,521 machine guns, 325 supply dumps. Not listed in the communiqués, but of great value to the Soviet Union, was the recovery of the direct rail link between Moscow, Tula, Orel, Kursk and Belgorod. Russian losses were heavy, too, but relatively lighter than in previous summer campaigns, especially as they were incurred in a successful advance...