Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what happened next, or why. Haskew never called the tower. The CAA noticed later that the signal from the Winston-Salem radio range was weak and erratic. At 1:43 a.m. the plane smashed into the 2,200-ft. Blue Ridge foothills near Galax, Va., northwest of Winston-Salem and more than 50 miles from the field...
...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
...Even so, Lydia is a pretty light-weight performance. But the first printing (including Literary Guild) is rumored to be 1,000,000 copies. Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox has already bought the story for $215,000. As a narrative it lacks the fire and dramatic punch of Northwest Passage, the unity and cogency of Oliver Wiswell, but as history it is packed with enough facts to fill a college course lasting two semesters...
Four neatly dressed real-estate men gingerly picked their way through the dusty, bustling city room of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Off in a corner they found their man, a Hearstling whose byline outdraws Pegler, Pearson and Eleanor Roosevelt in the far Northwest, and next to Blondie is the PI's most avidly read feature. One of the callers made a little speech, and Sports Editor Royal Brougham learned that he, of all people, was Seattle's "first citizen...
...wages for his impoverished Arab subjects.* Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help to exploit the Arabian pool. It has already spent an estimated $200 million on its concessions. Now it plans to spend $125 million on a 26-inch pipeline running 1,200 miles northwest from the Persian Gulf to Haifa to save the long haul by tanker through...