Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stewardess Kathy Lloyd is lucky: she was hired as Ethel Kennedy's social secretary at Hickory Hill, Va. Pilots Mel Vos and John Stout are doing all right; they have gone into the tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...
SCIENCE CENTER B, Hitchcock's North by Northwest...
Considering how easily Samuelson, the general manager of Esso's Campana refinery, was kidnaped, foreign executives had reason to worry. Eight E.R.P. terrorists burst into the club run by Esso for employees of its Campana plant, 50 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. They headed straight for the table where Samuelson sat lunching with friends. Six other kidnapers, who had earlier infiltrated the club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front...
...become increasingly restive in recent months, and an inflation rate of as much as 15% a year has made the economic resurgence of the '60s and early '70s less impressive for many Spaniards. Early in November, a group of coal miners in the province of Asturias in northwest Spain went on strike to demand better working conditions and shorter hours. Before long, 7,750 Asturias miners were refusing to go down in the mines...
...went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...