Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain and ghostlike clouds of a monsoon storm, Captain Chris van der Vaart, one of KLM's most experienced pilots, nosed down. When the plane broke through the murk, they could glimpse the sea and the approaches of Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. As the pilot headed northeast to circle for a landing, the plane was again swallowed by the low-hanging mists. Suddenly its left wing brushed a hidden, tree-covered, 674-foot hill, ripped along its slope as the pilot frantically tried to gain altitude. Some 20 feet from the top, the Franeker's nose...
...some areas Communist agitators armed with guns and clubs rode out of cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...
Discussing the "Prospects for New England," Harris said the number of people in the area may fall from the present 15 million to three million, because of the nation's general population shift westward and the fact that domestic trade to and from the northeast states must pass through strong competing areas...
Albert S. Carison, Dartmouth geographer, had more hope for this area. He said that the growing importance of foreign trade in our economy will benefit maritime New England, and offset the Northeast's disadvantage in domestic commerce...
...Magdalena's maiden voyage began uneventfully enough out of London. After a smooth South Atlantic crossing, the liner coasted down to Santos and Buenos Aires, picking up a cargo of Brazilian oranges and Argentine beef, then headed northeast for Rio and home. At 4:45 of a calm, cloudy morning last week, disaster intercepted the Magdalena