Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color photographs taken in the U.S. for illustrations. His pictures of rural and urban America, with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
...chief kept mum a secret that was being withheld even from the paper's night city desk: detectives were out guarding the Oregonian's Reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert and their families while the pair were digging into one of the messiest official scandals in Northwest history...
...last week the original plan to limit the President's campaigning to a few speeches from Washington had been completely scrapped. He now stands ready to make extensive campaign trips by air to New England, the Midwest, the Northwest and-possibly-the South...
During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
...fast (12,768 passengers in 1955 v. 444 in 1950) that the Civil Aeronautics Board wants more competition for Pan American, now the only U.S. flying round-the-world line. A CAB examiner recommended that Trans World Airlines get a link into Manila, where it can connect up with Northwest Airlines to form a global...