Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressure. The heart of the truckers' case was an apparent effort by the rails to block interstate trucking in the heavily industrial Northeast by erecting a "Chinese wall'' around Pennsylvania. The wall was Pennsylvania's 45,000-lb. limit on truck loads, second lowest in the U.S. and at least 13,000 Ibs. under surrounding states. Though the Pennsylvania legislature in 1951 boosted the limit to 60,000 Ibs., Governor John Fine vetoed the bill largely because of pressure brought to bear by ostensibly grass-roots citizens' organizations for tax reform and highway safety...
...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
...techniques could coax more oil out of the Appalachian basin where U.S. oilmen brought in their first wells almost a century ago. The companies gambled on three wells-and got three dry holes. With the fourth, on a 9,000-acre lease (annual rental: 25? an acre) in the northeast corner of the state, he finally hit the jackpot. Benedum figures the well should produce at least 1,000 bbl. daily on a long-term basis. Within hours of the strike nine companies were in the area snapping up land, and lease prices skyrocketed to $83 an acre. Benedum...
David Campbell '61 was knocked to the ground as he tackled one of the thugs as they fled from Weld Hall. The bandit got up, however, and escaped with his accomplice through the northeast Yard gate...
...Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...