Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northeast is also moving less rapidly than the South and West, partly because those regions have more room for expansion. Last year, personal income ran from 4% to 5% higher in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. These highly developed regions stand to fare better in the future. The Labor Department recently predicted that the fastest-growing businesses during the last half of the 1960s will be construction, electronics, publishing, trucking, retail and wholesale trade-precisely those sectors in which the Northeast is strongest...
Throughout much of the land, there is almost a mystique about Republican kingmakers, centered mostly in the Northeast and commonly referred to as "they." But so far in the present presidential contest, they have done no noticeable kingmaking. For one thing, they have had the strong feeling that neither John Kennedy nor Lyndon Johnson was likely to be defeated by any Republican. For another, they rather like Lyndon, especially his frugal fiscal positions. For still another, they have tended to underrate Goldwater's volunteer strength and to overrate the possibility that Barry would somehow beat himself...
Tilly said three factors will tend to reverse the growth of Negro ghettos. First, he said, the rate of Negro immigration from the South to the urban northeast ("the most highly segregated part of the United States") can be expected to slow down...
...just landed a prestive contract to supervise a huge construction project in Latin America. The company was picked by the State Department's Agency for International Development's Agency for International Development to plan and engineer a $27 million program of school and medical construction in northeast Brazil. The project will fan out over 1,500,000 sq. mil, and will include the construction of 6,500 elementary schools. 332 health centers, 22 teacher-training centers, 21 normal schools and 47 audio-visual centers plus the renovation of about 4,000 existing calssrooms. Daly will send a staff...
Despite the setback in Oklahoma, right-to-work proposals stand a good chance of becoming law before year's end in Idaho and Montana, both of which border on states with similar laws. They will also come up in Vermont, but the Northeast has a tradition of cold-shouldering such measures. Strong right-to-work movements are underway in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oregon and Kentucky, and in New Mexico right-to-work forces are trying to elect state legislators who favor their cause in order to pass a rights law next year...