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SAC was the operational establishment in charge of America's land-based strategic bomber aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992.
President Grant sponsored two federally funded scientific discovery projects ; the Polaris Expedition, America's first large scale attempt to reach the North Pole, and the Hayden Geological Survey into the Yellowstone, that led to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park.
The origin of the first theme, later known as American Exceptionalism, was often traced to America's Puritan heritage, particularly John Winthrop's famous " City upon a Hill " sermon of 1630, in which he called for the establishment of a virtuous community that would be a shining example to the Old World.
Two important painters in the establishment of America's pop art vocabulary were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
Eminence maintains a small town feel, but in the summer becomes a resort city with several locally owned restaurants, motels, bed & breakfasts, including America's largest trail riding establishment.
After " weeks of negotiation with ... emissaries, ... a complex multi-stepped plan " was " hammered out " that included the establishment of an international commission to study America's role in Iran.
The students at Andover inspired the establishment of America's first organized missionary society.
Equally ambitious was the Aluminum Company of America's establishment of a massive aluminum smelting operation at what is now Alcoa in 1914, which required the construction of a large plant and company town and the building of a series of dams along the Little Tennessee River to supply the plant with hydroelectric power.
Upon the 1954 polio vaccine field trial, whose success Salk announced on the radio, Salk became a public hero eye but failed to credit the many other researchers that his effort rode upon, and was somewhat shunned by America's scientific establishment.
" His two hour documentary for the Discovery Channel, Billion Dollar Secret, detailed for the first time the secret inner workings of America's classified weapons establishment.
Delano was instrumental in the establishment of America's first national park, supervising the first U. S. federally funded 1871 exploratory scientific expedition into Yellowstone.
He claims that America's foreign policy exploits are tantamount to the establishment of an empire and that the price of maintaining such an empire could accelerate America's eventual decline.
Catherine Shouse ’ s desire for her children to develop an appreciation for and a relationship with nature resulted in the establishment of America's first and only national park for the performing arts – Wolf Trap.

establishment and transcontinental
There were other possible migration paths for early settlers, miners, or travelers to California or Oregon besides the Oregon trail prior to the establishment of the transcontinental railroads.
As many as four trains per day went through the gorge, though in time the establishment of alternate routes through the mountains made the Royal Gorge fall from favor for transcontinental use, and passenger train service on the main line was discontinued in 1967.
Although events of the Civil War dominated, and the First Battle of Bull Run occurred only two weeks after the 37th Congress was called into session, under Grow's speakership, several other major acts of Congress were passed and signed into law, particularly the Morrill Land Grant College Act ( passed House June 17, 1862 ), Pacific Railway Act authorizing land grants to encourage the construction of the transcontinental railroad, and the Homestead Act, which in over a century resulted in the establishment of 1. 6 million homesteads.
The subsequent achievements of the Air Mail Service included the establishment of a transcontinental route and the development of airway lighting.
As modernization spread across the United States with completion of the transcontinental railway in the 1860s and establishment of the Rural Electrification Administration in the 1930s, isolated rural communities were changed forever.

establishment and rail
Trust members also make submissions on rail safety issues, including recommending that fines for safety breaches be dedicated to rail safety improvements, and campaigning for the establishment of an independent railway safety ombudsman.
There have been proposals for the establishment of Afghanistan's rail network linking Jalalabad with Pakistan Railways, allowing for increased trade of goods, people and commerce between the two countries.
The arrival of British troops led to the establishment of road and rail links and the introduction of schools, mainly for strategic purposes.
The small Amtrak station in downtown Kingman is a historically significant building, constructed in Mission Revival Style architecture ; however, prior to the establishment of Amtrak in 1971, the structure had fallen into disrepair with the decline of passenger rail service in the U. S.
Community growth began in 1862 with the establishment of a spur rail line to Ogdensburg.
Despite the end of Almira as a rail terminal, it continued to thrive through 1890 with the establishment of a newspaper and the construction of many new buildings.
The Act also handed the WSPU an issue on which to campaign and rail against other parts of the British establishment in particular the Anglican Church.
As a government-owned railway and the only operator of a rail connection to the port of Halifax and the extensive defence establishment there, the ICR became a lifeline for the Canadian and British war effort throughout the First World War, particularly since the CPR line to Saint John ran through the state of Maine on its eastward route from Montreal, thereby any war shipments on CPR would violate the United States ' neutrality.
With the decline of boat service from Buffalo and establishment of through rail service, the line to Slater's Dock was abandoned in the early 20th century and service was cut back to the village of Chippawa.
In 1967 iron ore was discovered at Mount Whaleback and a mining venture was undertaken that included the establishment of a new town, Newman, 426 km of rail from the mine to the port and the development of processing equipment at both Newman and Port Hedland.
The legislation created a new regulatory regime for the railways, with the establishment of the Rail Regulator ( dealing with the monopoly and dominant elements of the industry, principally Railtrack ( now Network Rail )) and the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising, whose role was to sell passenger rail franchises to the private sector.
Urban growth accelerated in Preston during the 1920s, thanks largely to the establishment of a direct rail link between Collingwood and Flinders Street in 1904 ( later electrified in 1926 ), and a building of a tram line linking Melbourne and the city in 1920.
The new legislation tackled projects of rail expansion between Passaic and Bergen counties, bridge construction throughout Route 46, and the establishment of a bike-pedestrian path in South Orange.
Further restructures in 1996, 2001 and 2003 resulted in the establishment of the Rail Corporation New South Wales, the agency currently responsible for the Sydney suburban and interurban rail network and rural passenger services, and for providing government and commercial freight operators with access to the rails of the Sydney metropolitan area.
The first Railway establishment at Kharagpur started with the commissioning of the rail link between Cuttack – Balasore – Kharagpur and from Sini to Kolaghat via Kharagpur.
The opening of the Kearny Connection, allowing the establishment of the first direct rail service to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, has enhanced real-estate values immensely.
In 1979, with the establishment of New Jersey Transit, NJDOT's rail division ( which funded and supported State-sponsored passenger rail service ) was folded into the new agency.
During the establishment of the dynamite factory and the delicate negotiations which evolved as a result of the private rail link from the factory to Zuurfontein, Wolff played a prominent part.
::"... the Bill now before the House and include the establishment of performance-based rail safety duties for rail operators, managers of rail infrastructure, contractors working on rolling stock or rail infrastructure, and rail safety workers including drivers and maintainers of rolling stock and infrastructure to ensure safety so far as reasonably practicable.

establishment and lines
The Russian Revolution first saw the establishment of the Russian Provisional Government on the lines of a liberal republic, but this was overthrown by the Bolsheviks who went on to establish the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the first republics established under Marxist-Leninist ideology.
These remarks from Arafat indicated a shift away from one of the PLO's primary aims — the destruction of Israel ( as entailed in the Palestinian National Covenant )– and toward the establishment of two separate entities: an Israeli state within the 1949 armistice lines, and an Arab state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
From 1994, Chișinău saw the establishment of new trolleybus lines, as well as an increase in capacity of existing lines, in order to improve connections between the urban districts.
The Fourth Five Year Economic Development Plan has proposed the following key benchmarks for 2010: 36 million fixed lines ; 50 % penetration rate for mobile phones ; establishment of reliable rural ICT connections and 30 million internet users.
However, a subsequent redrawing of county lines resulted in the establishment of adjacent Moore County, where it is now located, so no current Lincoln County business uses its namesake process.
Two railroad lines intersect on the northwest side of town ; the question of whether the state of Minnesota could order installation of an interchange track between the two independent railroads led to a 1900 U. S. Supreme Court decision which affirmed that the state could indeed order the establishment of the " Hanley Falls Wye " for the public convenience, despite the railroads ' opposition.
Jim Carrey's character in the film Mr. Popper's Penguins uses the first two lines of the song as a sales pitch to describe the establishment that his company plans on building, to take the place of an old restaurant.
On 13 March 1946, Lindsay wrote to Sir Walter Moberly, chair of the University Grants Committee ( UGC ), suggesting the establishment of a college “ on new lines ”.
This is done by the establishment of township and range lines.
Monumentation is the establishment of permanent on-the-ground objects that mark exact locations of surveyed points and lines.
UD requires establishment of an extracorporeal circulation through its unique AV loop with two preexisting arterial and central venous lines in ICU patients.
A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of durable goods and products to the consumer's personal and residential needs ; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories.
Following the establishment of a new Passenger Transport Authority in 1986, a light-rail scheme under the present name " Midland Metro " was revived with a different set of lines.
In its interim report, the Sarkar Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with affiliated secondary institutions.
He also called for the complete opening of Japan to foreign trade, economic reform, and establishment of a modern military along western lines.
Following in the wake of Timesharing providers, provision of leased lines between terminals and datacenters proved a sustainable business which led to the establishment of dedicated business units and companies specialized in the management and marketing of such network services.
A large group of scholars at the Darul Uloom Deoband had opposed the establishment of a state established along sectarian lines, particularly the demands of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Muslim League for the Partition of British India into Muslim and non-Muslim sections.
Between 1816 and 1826 discussions between Sir Stamford Raffles, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Banks and others led to the idea that an establishment along the lines of the Jardin des Plantes was needed that would house a zoological collection " which should interest and amuse the public.
There was a significant movement with the intention of moving the entire university to Dundee ( which the Royal Commission observed was now a " large and increasing town ") or the establishment of a college along very similar lines to the present United College.
It is known that they were in earnest for the establishment of a government on broad lines ; and it is certain that the ministers and captains, the magistrates and men of affairs, forceful in the settlements from the beginning, were the men who took the lead, guided the discussions, and found the root of the whole matter in the first written declaration of independence in these historical orders.
His theory of deep operations, where combined arms formations strike deep behind enemy lines to destroy the enemy's rear and logistics, were opposed by some in the military establishment, but were largely adopted by the Red Army in the mid-1930s.
After the successful overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate ( bakufu ) and establishment of the new Meiji government modeled on European lines, a more formal military, loyal to the central government rather than individual domains, became recognized by the general populace as a necessity to preserve Japan ’ s independence from western imperialism.
These fraternities, organized along ethnic lines to allow preaching in the slaves ' native languages, provided a legitimate cover for slave reunions, and ultimately may have aided the establishment of Candomblé.

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