Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lately the line has been advancing in several other directions. Last month a CAB examiner recommended that Continental and two other lines be granted the Pacific Northwest-to-Southwest routes, the last major runs in the U.S. still without through air service. Last week the Pentagon announced that Continental's minimum-guarantee contract to airlift troops to Viet Nam would be increased fourfold, to $30 million in 1967. And Los Angeles-based Continental announced a $64 million order for ten more jets. In all, Continental is investing $196 million to add 30 planes by 1968, doubling the size...
Along Chicago's volatile Northwest Side, boredom pangs were as palpable as the prickling humidity. On Division Street, main stem of the barrio that holds the majority of Chicago's Puerto Rican population, people drooped languidly from tenement windows and crowded the front stoops, ducking for cover during thundershowers that drenched the area off and on all day. In any other minority neighborhood, the cop on the beat might have been nervous, for the day (it was Sunday), the mood and the weather afforded the classic setting for a racial explosion. But Division Street, as always, had been...
...otherwise slow-moving stock market last week, the shares of seven of the nation's twelve big airlines climbed to alltime peaks. The high-flying seven: United, TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, Northwest, Continental and Braniff. With air traffic racing 26% ahead of 1965, the industry's first-quarter revenues rose 21%. Last week Pan Am said that its passenger traffic so far this year was up 30%. TWA reported that its revenues in May grew 19.5%, compared with the same month last year. Fast-growing Continental Airlines' May passenger traffic rose 29% on domestic routes...
...tangled jungle scrub of Cu Chi lies only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. For nearly two decades it has been the impregnable preserve of the Viet Cong -until one bright sunny morning when unexpected guests arrive. They are some 80 Armored Personnel Carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Crashing through thickets, the APCs weave and crisscross, stitching the jungle with lethal, preplotted patterns of .50-cal. and M60 machine-gun fire. Grudgingly the Viet Cong give way, firing back carefully to conserve their slender hoard of ammunition...
Hedged & Soaring. The new hotel is the latest and liveliest addition to Century City, Alcoa's huge, 180-acre project on the edge of Beverly Hills and 14 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The land-which, as 20th Century-Fox's back lot, used to bristle with cowboys and Indians, and before that was Tom Mix's ranch-cost $43 million. So far, Alcoa has spent an additional $160 million for the hotel, two 13-story office buildings, a big shopping center, and a pair of I. M. Pei-designed apartment towers, billed as "Your prestige...