Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Safe & Comfortable. After his usual two-day sojourn at the Ambassador last week, Ramfis climbed into a dark green Cadillac and rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...
...Pacific Northwest, which is crying for more cheap electricity, a big bloc of voters believes that only the Government can afford the big dams the region wants. In the 1956 elections, the Republicans took a beating because of their partnership policy and stress on private power. Yet last week the Northwest was up in arms over a Federal Power Commission recommendation for a huge dam that probably only the Government could build. Reason: it would kill the fish Northwesterners love as much as kilowatts...
...issue was the turbulent Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border, main tributary of the great Columbia and potential source of 3,600,000 kw. of the minimum 6,500,000 needed in the Northwest by 1967. There, unlike its previous decision in favor of three private dams at Hells...
...with high-pressure streams of water colored with red dye, then circled the plaza of El Silencio, center of earlier riots. When the truck left there was silence, except for the clink of soldiers' bayonets. Then the noise of gunfire rattled across the deserted city, first from the northwest, where blocks of new middle-class apartments were going up, then closer to the colonial heart of the city as the rioters surged towards government headquarters...
...first eleven months of 1957, net operating income of the twelve lines dropped 49.8% to $56.5 million on total operating revenues of $1.4 billion. In November every line ended in the red except Braniff, and its income was down 55%. Deficits ranged from American's $1.9 million to Northwest's $247,000. The chief cause: while operating revenues rose 12% through November, expenses soared 17.9%. Nearly a year ago, when the airlines first began asking for an increase, they thought 6% would be enough. But CAB delayed so long that now some lines think they need as much...