Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highway planners, the Delaware Memorial Bridge stood for something more exciting than statistics: it is one more completed, solid link in a plan to unsnarl the major postwar highway problems of the northeastern U.S. By November, if all goes well, the new $250 million New Jersey Turnpike will siphon the outpouring of trucks and cars from New York, run them across the Jersey meadows and farmlands at 60 to 70 m.p.h., and spill them out on the new Delaware bridge in half the time of today's routes. From there, in mid 1952, southbound motorists should be able...
...Turnpike, cross the Delaware north of Philadelphia to reach the eleven-year-old Pennsylvania Turnpike. Once across Pennsylvania, they may be able to cut westward to Chicago without intersection or stop sign along new expressways planned for northern Ohio and Indiana. At its northern end, the Jersey Turnpike will link with the highspeed New York State Thruway, already under construction between Manhattan, Buffalo and the Pennsylvania border. With another twist of a cloverleaf, it can join New York's present parkway system into New England, zip up Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway. Massachusetts is now a bad spot...
...While we Germans want no charity," he said, "we want to become a useful link in the European chain." He deplored the influence of reactionaries and Germanophobes in the formulation of the Schumann Plan...
General Li's forays are unlikely to do more than pinprick Red China. Harassed on its flanks and rear by Burmese government forces (Burma maintains diplomatic relations with Peking), and by Burmese Communists seeking to link up with the Reds in Yunnan, Li's ill-equipped force has little long-range hope of holding out. But Li's pinpricks worried the Communists enough to make them divert thousands of crack troops to Yunnan...
Lord Woolton plans to operate Selfridge's as a link in Lewis' chain, which has always boasted that in every city where it has an outlet, it has the biggest store. In London last week, the gossip was that Woolton planned to make Selfridge's big enough so that Lewis' boast would cover London...