Word: northeasterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stock in a trusteeship. Last week, clearly unfazed by his setback at TWA, wily Howard Hughes, 55, made a dramatic bid for re-entry into commercial aviation. His newest ploy: a request to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to acquire control of Boston's Northeast Airlines...
Losses for All. Hughes was in a strong position in bidding for Northeast-primarily because Northeast itself was in such a weak one. Five years ago, accepting Northeast's contention that it could never make money as just a regional New England carrier, the CAB authorized the line to fly the busy New York-Miami route. The CAB's reasoning: with the profits from the Miami run, Northeast could offset its New England losses...
...revolt against "the picayune approach to civil rights," Kent Spriggs 1G is organizing a neighborhood conservation program for the predominantly Negro Slum area near the Margaret Fuller Settlement House, northeast of Central Square...
Spokesmen for American Airlines, the originators of the experiment three months ago, said that the company would lose money if the plan were in effect over the well-traveled holidays. Similar reasons caused Eastern Airlines to reject the plan entirely. National, Northwest, and Northeast airlines originally offered the service but discontinued it on Nov. 12, with United and Braniff following...
...hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. A U.S. ground crew of 200 lives in tents near by to service the planes and take care of 24 U.S. fighter-bombers and transports scheduled to be turned over to the South Viet Nam government...