Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended with members of the New Brunswick Cabinet taking on an all-U. S. team. Driving home as the fog began to roll in from the bay, the President held a reception on the porch of his red bungalow for his fellow-islanders and visitors from the U. S. mainland a mile away. Gifted with the art of making men hopeful, he told them...
Next day, canceling plans to view the uncompleted 'Quoddy dams by sea from the Potomac, he took his mother in his car, ferried across to the mainland to visit Lubec, Eastport, and 'Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made...
...much more than 100 years ago, my own great-grandfather owned a farm in Harlem close to the Manhattan approach to this bridge. . . . In the older days, there was no need for a great structure connecting Long Island and Manhattan and the mainland...
Only one of New York City's five boroughs on the U. S. mainland is The Bronx. Between it and Manhattan Island flows the sludgy little Harlem River. Between it and Queens on Long Island churns Hell Gate, connecting East River with Long Island Sound.* Until last week there was no way, except for a feeble ferry, for motorists on the mainland to reach Long Island without passing through Manhattan. This traffic gap was then closed by the ceremonious opening of a $60,300,000 collection of viaducts and spans called the Triborough Bridge...
...Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means of three truss spans...