Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were pushing toward Tahushan, 65 miles southwest of the government's enclave at Mukden. Capture of Tahushan would block Nationalist efforts to reopen land communications with the Mukden forces. In Shantung, the north coast cities of Weihaiwei, Lungkow and Tengchow had been evacuated by government troops. To the northwest the Reds pressed down on the steadily narrowing Paotow-Tientsin corridor, and wealthy citizens sold their belongings for wads of paper money that they hoped would pay for their flight south...
Raise Granted. The Civil Aeronautics Board granted a 35% mail-rate boost to five major domestic airlines-American, Eastern, Northwest, T.W.A., and United. For all but American the boost was retroactive to Jan. 1. American had not asked for a boost, let alone a retroactive one, but CAB decided it should have the increase anyway. The new rate schedule would give the lines another $5,271,000 in revenue this year...
They turned south on Main Street (see map), away from the cluster of tall buildings which give northwest Kansas City its impressive skyline - a skyline dominated by the 30-story, $6,000,000 city hall, built during the Pendergast days and still much too large for the city's needs. They passed the two-story, yellow brick building at 1908 Main, where Old Tom Pendergast's greedy fingers had pulled the strings. The lights there were still on ; Jim Pendergast's men were measuring their defeat...
...example, Northwest Airlines, Inc., which lost $1,141,340, had put a lot into developing its short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...
Down from the rocky ridges and snow-choked gullies the guerrillas straggled last week. Some were barefoot, some wore slabs of leather tied about their feet with string. Two Greek government forces, catching the rebels in a pincers northwest of Mt. Olympus, had driven them up the slopes of Mt. Pieria, up beyond the snow line. There the guerrillas' food gave out. Some ate their mules. By week's end, after a month of fighting, over 800 had been captured or had surrendered. They left the corpses of about 800 more behind them on the heights...