Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles River is not like the Gulf Stream, springtime in New England is very different from spring in Florida (or anywhere else for that matter) and collegiate sailing in the Northeast in March is not at all similar to racing in the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC). So what else...
...rumbles toward court-ordered liquidation next month, W.T. Grant Co. has taken on a bustle that belies its status as the second biggest bankruptcy (after the wreck of the Penn Central Transportation Co.) in U.S. history. The once giant retailer, now reduced to 155 stores, mainly in the Northeast (down from almost 1,100 nationwide five months ago), is conducting the sale of the century-and the going-out-of-business sale of all time. Goods are moving briskly at discounts of up to 60%, as bargain-hunting customers snap up everything from towels to television sets...
...Congressman and dean of the House of Representatives who, before his overthrow in last year's Young Turk revolt, had served as chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee since 1963; of pneumonia; in Bethesda, Md. Baptist Patman, a vintage populist from Patman's Switch, in the northeast Texas cotton country, never flagged in his hostility to big banks, big money and high interest rates. Always a storm center, and often accused of dictatorial tactics, Patman helped win World War I veterans a $3 billion bonus in 1936; was coauthor of the Robinson-Patman Act, designed to prevent...
Only after four decades of exploration did the world learn that the Niger flowed northeast, then took a mighty turn at Timbuctoo and continued south into the Gulf of Guinea at the slave-trading settlement called Brass...
...Harris and, until they dropped out, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and North Carolina's Terry Sanford. After the 1980 census, if the current population shifts continue, the states of the South and West will increase their total congressional representation from 210 to 225 seats. The states of the Northeast and Midwest will lose 15 of their seats, declining to 210. Yet the old Southern conservatism is losing some of its force, for reasons that have to do more with actuarial necessity than with migration. The Southern barons in Congress, the men re-elected term after term so that they...