Word: massachusetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut finishes patching up its highway system from New Haven to the Massachusett's border, there remains only one big missing link in the concrete speedway from the Holland Tunnel to Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization...
...Leader Joe Martin's do-nothing policy. But Joe Martin could not dismiss it as coming from a bunch of amateurs. Signers of the statement included such able legislators as Minnesota's Walter Judd, New York's Augustus Bennet. New Jersey's James Auchincloss, and Massachusett's Christian Herter...
After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...