Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as labor unions chip in money to help one another when they are on strike, most of the major and local U.S. airlines have a mutual aid pact to assist any contributor who is grounded by labor trouble. No company has benefited more from the pact than Northwest Orient Airlines, which has been shut down by strikes about one day in every ten since 1960. Last week Northwest settled still another strike, and though it did not do nearly as well as normally during the shutdown, it received so much in strike benefits that it actually showed a profit...
...Northwest's angry pilots were out for three months. They finally agreed to a three-year contract calling for a 29% pay-and-benefits increase. The most junior officers' pay will rise from $15,564 a year to $18,504, and senior pilots' salary will soar from $60,600 to $66,816. The Air Line Pilots Association compromised its main demand that the company rehire all 1,619 pilots employed before the strike. It accepted Northwest's offer to rehire 1,425 immediately and set up a schedule for recalling the rest...
...moved off. The first column, on foot, made its way up a little-used Land Rover track through the swamps, waded across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital of Kampala...
...balmy afternoon last week, four tourists from Miami finished a round of golf at the Fountain Valley course, a lavish facility on the northwest coast owned by Laurance and David Rockefeller. As the tourists stood at the outdoor bar, they were startled to see half a dozen men-all wearing military fatigues and masks-burst from a nearby hedge. Suddenly the masked men opened fire with automatic rifles, spraying bullets crazily at everyone in sight. In moments the four Miami tourists were dead and so were three club employees. A fourth, Groundskeeper John Gulliver, 23, moaned again and again...
...Caldwells, they are building an in-flight mini-empire. In 1970, they started Northwest's Passages, making Caldwell Communications the only company publishing two major in-flights. The next step is to get money from readers as well as advertisers. Some issues of The American Way contain order blanks offering a year's subscription at $7.50 to passengers who want it at home...