Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east coast, where Arabs gather each evening to chat over tiny cups of syrupy black coffee, the talk was all of pleasant things, of rich crops of clove and cinnamon, of the fleets of slant-sailed dhows which each January drifted over to the island on the northeast winds and in April, when the winds changed, drifted back, heavy-laden, toward India and the Arabian coast. Zanzibar, in the words of one of its political leaders, was "a happy island"-its climate fine, its people content, its crime rate low, and even its clocks willing to jog along a full...
...airline industry is moaning low. Though revenues for the first five months of 1957 hit a record $618 million, the airlines reckon their total net operating income at barely $14 million-down by a staggering 63.5% from last year. Five of the twelve major trunk lines-Capital, Northeast, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines-reported that they were operating in the red, and airline shares have lost 30% to 40% of their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the one thing they...
...year old country of Pakistan, strategically located in Northeast India, near Russia, feels that Communism is not at present a serious threat, Hamid Jalal told a Littauer audience Tuesday night...
...underground; a growing city would need more water. Rounding up powerful business friends-Union Pacific Railroad's E. H. Harriman, Promoter Moses Sherman, Banker Joseph Sartori and Collis Huntington's nephew Henry-Chandler set out to locate a new source. He found it: 240 miles to the northeast lay a lush valley of orchards and farms fed by the Owens River. Chandler and his friends quietly bought up the water and land rights from the prosperous, unsuspecting Owens farmers. In Washington, the syndicate got the U.S. Forest Service to declare vast portions of the Owens Valley a forest...
CEMENT SHORTAGE is stalling construction jobs in Northeast, South and Midwest. Two-week-old strike by 12,000 members of United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers union has cut U.S. cement output by one-third...