Word: northeastward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pioneer" it. Last spring Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went aboard as a passenger. The McCormick ship was named, oddly, the 'Untin' Bowler, partly because...
From Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
...undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday Feature...