Word: connection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other." But with the first day's excitement over, the Bluebell and Primrose, keeping to its required four trips a day, found itself again with only five passengers. Never one to give up, Miss Bessemer began a new crusade-to electrify the Bluebell and Primrose and connect it with the main line to London. Just as determinedly, the Transport Commission set to work preparing a new bill to repeal the 1877 act and stop the Bluebell and Primrose forever...
...Mandarins, that Priestess de Beauvoir chooses to suggest that existentialism is not simply a philosophy of pessimism. Just because life is essentially meaningless, she seems to say, it does not follow that each man and woman must live without developing his or her own meaning. But that meaning must connect the individual to the events of his time and to other people. Man, says Simone, is free, but his freedom to choose will surely lead him to destruction if he retreats before the come-and-go of his time. Heroine Anne sees all this just in time. She puts away...
...week approved the biggest face lifting job in U.S. history. By a 388 to 19 vote it passed a road-building program calling for 13 years of federal and state spending amounting to nearly $52 billion. The project involves a 40,000-mile system of interstate highways that would connect 42 state capitals and link 90% of all cities with populations of 50,000 or more...
...growing so fast (12,768 passengers in 1955 v. 444 in 1950) that the Civil Aeronautics Board wants more competition for Pan American, now the only U.S. flying round-the-world line. A CAB examiner recommended that Trans World Airlines get a link into Manila, where it can connect up with Northwest Airlines to form a global...
...trucks, Gruen's planners suggested a subsurface road network linked to the beltway. Recessed drives would connect with cellar entrances for deliveries. The taller, high-value buildings in the area today would remain, with new skyscrapers added. Disappearing to make way for the beltway and garages, whose roofs would serve as heliports, would be shabby, less desirable structures...