Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed contract with Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World and United Airlines called for benefit and wage increases that were estimated by sources close to the Administration at 4.3 per cent a year...
...five airlines were struck: TWA, United, Eastern, Northwest and National. Of all their operating heads, none had more at stake than TWA President Charles Tillinghast Jr., 55, who has been in the airline business just over five years but in that time has helped turn TWA from a floundering giant into one of the industry's highest flyers. The strike caught Tillinghast not only near the crest of TWA's comeback but also at a time when the line must fly if it is to prosper. TWA's income is greatly concentrated in the summer along...
...Apart. In Washington, in a basement room at the Department of Labor, negotiations moved fretfully. At one .point, Chief I.A.M. Negotiator James Ramsey stomped out of a mediating session, held up all negotiations overnight because Northwest had warned its strikers in Tokyo that they must now pay rent in advance for their company-owned quarters. At week's end, Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, the chief mediator, reported that the settlement was "no nearer than a week...
...many short-hop routes to use jets efficiently; the average Eastern passenger travels a mere 310 miles. Hall has therefore flung Eastern headlong into the competition with eight other U.S. airlines, including TWA, United and American, for lucrative transpacific-route rights now held only by Pan Am and Northwest...
...technician; his films reflect the work of a mature artist and contain great thematic depth and consistency. Using his familiar hero, the ordinary man plunged unexpectedly into a nightmarish world of melodrama, Hitchcock will allow the nightmare to bring about changes in his heroes: thematically, North by Northwest is about the redemption of a useless individual, The Man Who Knew Too Much about the emergence of a husband's desire to dominate his wife...