Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walkout meant that two of the four major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed...
There had only been shouts, stones and vulgar slogans, and the unusual spectacle of a high U.S. representative conducted about a Middle Eastern city like a hunted criminal. Yet, if Fritzlan had followed the route from the airport that the mob had expected, the embassy car would certainly have been stopped, probably overturned and set afire, and the men inside could have been in gravest peril. If General Kassem had not wanted William Rountree humiliated or worse, he showed an inefficiency and stupidity not previously apparent...
...went out at the Eastern Gate...
...walk out immediately, promised to give the public sufficient warning. One hopeful sign that the strike might be averted: the resumption of negotiations between American and the Air Line Pilots Association in Chicago for the first time since Oct. 1. Another hopeful sign in the clouded airlines situation was Eastern Airlines settlement this week with its striking machinists, who won pay raises of 44? to 49? an hour in top jobs. Eastern was scheduled to meet with striking flight engineers shortly after the settlement, hoped to clear up differences and resume services as soon as possible...
...person goes up into the mountain country of eastern Kentucky, up along Defeated Creek or Betty's Troublesome or Caney, and if he'll just sit down and rest a minute, he's likely to hear a fine mort of olden tales. Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep...