Word: aroostook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilots than inexperienced ones, and more to upgrade pilot skills. With CAB help, it may be possible eventually for a tiny unscheduled third-level like Winkle's Flying Service of Siwash, N.D., to attain the prestige and performance of a scheduled third-level like Maine's mighty Aroostook Airways...
...particularly Senator Edmund Muskie-find Freddie a liability. Maine's sugar-beet business is verging on collapse. Vahlsing's Maine Sugar Industries (M.S.I.) lost $2.7 million in the first nine months of 1969, owes more than $300,000 in back taxes and has yet to pay some Aroostook County farmers for their beets. Worse, M.S.I, is in danger of defaulting on an $8 million state-guaranteed bank loan, a situation that could force Maine to assume the payments of $80,000 a month for the next 14 years...