Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cutting out free meals, Western Air Lines cut plane fares 5% last week. Other lines planned more drastic rate reductions. Northeast Airlines hopes soon to sell all unreserved and "no-show" seats at ⅓ discount. Pan American Airways, which had cut fares 44% with its coach service to Puerto Rico, will introduce a similar service to Buenos Aires in a month. Pan Am's coach passengers will travel 52 to a DC-4 (as against the first class 30), and get only simple meals. But they will pay $169.50 less than the present New York-Buenos Aires round-trip...
...village of Mikofalva (pop. 1,100), 100 miles northeast of Budapest, is populated chiefly by Kelemens and Kovacses, who belong to the Paloc tribe, one of Hungary's oldest and toughest. For centuries, Kelemens and Kovacses have married only Kovacses and Kelemens, thus keeping outsiders from the village. They have not kept out Communism. The village has 250 card-holding party members. All Mikofalvians-Kelemens, Kovacses and Communists-are Roman Catholics...
...another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
Just beyond Thacher Island, the gale struck. All that night, the Portland's paddle wheels thrashed vainly as giant seas battered her superstructure, drove her southward before the raging northeast wind. Elsewhere, 141 ships foundered. In the bitter cold and driving snow, men could not see across a ship's deck, had trouble getting their breath...
Planes for the Sunday exodus are pretty well packed. American Airlines reports sellouts on all non-stop flights from 3 to 10 p.m., with only short range flights open. Eastern Airlines has only a very few seats on the 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. lifts, but Northeast has a few vacancies on all flights...