Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wise to connect with one good florist and do business all through him. He then gets to know the vases and how to make up his piece so that it fits. . . . Be sure to choose a florist who has fresh, first class merchandise. 'Seconds' are noticeably inferior when placed on the altar, and they wilt rapidly...
...After losing the election to Governor Lehman, Mr. Moses picked up where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year job as a member of the city's Triborough Bridge Authority. The bridge, which will connect Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in the vicinity of Hell Gate, is being built with $42,000,000 of PWA funds...
...much mistaken we shall require more professors in the future whose point of view is broad enough to embrace several of those fields which are now sharply differentiated. In teaching as well as in research there are rich opportunities for those who will venture into the uncertain areas which connect one specialty with another...
...days later the Government proudly opened the first railway ever to pierce remote Shensi Province and connect with the 20th Century world legendary Sian, capital of China during the Ts'in, Han and T'ang dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback...
...Washington office last week Mr. Jones summoned the heads of the seven major roads that connect with M. & St. L. Let the corpse of M. & St. L. be cut into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation...