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...shaped bridge in the background. It leads over to Arkansas, birthplace of the president (as a sign on the bridge lets you know). At night, the bridge is fully lighted and can be seen from the air. Quite a sight for weary airplane travelers circling down--usually on Northwest. Memphis is a hub, after all. The airline of choice for the Mafia in the film is the airline of choice for just about every Memphian...
...stepped out of the swinging door from the Northwest terminal and headed down the stairs to baggage claim, tiredly listening to the heavy Boston accents of the people in front of me. When I finally claimed my bags and dragged them outside, I felt a strong breeze and slightly humid air on my skin...
Wilson has spent most of his life in Johnstown, New York, an ethnic blue-collar town of 9,000 people, located about 45 miles northwest of Albany. The Wilsons live outside the town in a rural house. Behind their house is a cow farm; to the left, a horse farm...
...Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battle-ground, author Peter Svenson illuminates the importance of this small patch of land in the Shenandoah Valley of northwest Virginia. Svenson does not try to argue that Cross Keys was in some way the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Rather, he reveals how the very elements that make Cross Keys like so many other battlefields also make it unique. In his narrative, Cross Keys becomes a place where the "great themes" of American History were fought out by individuals with their own historical identities on a Sunday in June, 1862. The land...
...MAJOR INVESTORS IN CONTINENTAL AIRLINES AND NORTHwest Airlines are quietly talking merger. DAVID BONDERMAN, whose investor group controls 28.7% of Continental Airlines, and RICHARD C. BLUM, a key Northwest Airlines board member, recently held a secret meeting in the very conspicuous Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. If the two can work out the snags -- such as the fact that Air Canada owns a chunk of Continental -- Bonderman and Blum could make a deal that would shake up the airline industry...