Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...
Because the Northeast was hit by a sudden warm spell, last week visitors found hawks relatively few over Hawk Mountain. Next fortnight is expected to be the best of the season for hawkseeing. With the broadwing season about over the migrators will be led by sharp-shins and redtails, with a scattering of the first golden eagles...
...building was made continuous from the first to the third floors, and an emergency exit was provided at the south end. At the north, or Memorial Church end, a new stairway for emergency use only was built, and a new, emergency exit was cut into the northeast corner of the building to serve the assembly room, Sever 11. Further an additional stairway from the third floor corridor to the fourth was constructed making available a large room on the top floor which has been out of service for several years...
North Beach Airport's present 105 acres lie on the south shore of Flushing Bay, eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed...
...Across the Pole is the Northeast Passage to China along the top of Norway & Russia. Sebastian Cabot initiated its search in 1553. Henry Hudson twice attempted a passage but it was not until 1879 that the route was navigated. Now Russia currently operates 160 freighters on summer schedules in the Northeast Passage's more open but colder waters...