Word: newarkers
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...Newark...
...NEWARK, N.J. City rallies for peace after four students are shot...
...speech at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago in which he noted that the number of city schoolchildren killed in the last school year was higher than the number of soldiers from all of Illinois killed in Iraq over the same period. "From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there's an epidemic of violence that's sickening the soul of this nation," the Illinois Senator told the crowd. "The violence is unacceptable and it's got to stop...
...YOUNGEST licensed pilot in the U.S. A few years later, brash aviator Robert Buck was a national hero. Dubbed the Schoolboy Pilot--he drank milk in flight and called his parents after every landing--Buck flew a 28-hour 1930 trip from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles, setting the junior transcontinental speed record, and made a record round trip to Havana in 13 hours. A chief pilot for TWA, where he worked from 1937 to 1974, Buck wrote such acclaimed books as North Star Over My Shoulder, a must- read for new pilots...
...Pittsburgh and New York City at the time and, week by week, I witnessed a company that was coming apart even as it continued to expand. PeopleExpess began to make U.S. Air look like a Swiss watch. The PeopleExpress staff was increasingly stressed and losing control of their system. Newark's dilapidated North Terminal, People's cut-rate home terminal, began to resemble a refugee center as flights were canceled without warning, rerouted or, it seemed, simply lost in the confusion. The smiles that greeted the airline's early days were being replaced by swarms of angry passengers...