Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit had need of such toughness. It was the heartland of a new flurry of strikes which extended from the Pacific Northwest lumber industry to a toolmakers' plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
Merrill's Epic. Stilwell's main force, by this time about 50 miles northwest of Myitkyina, had an ace up its sleeve. A group of Merrill's Marauders were on the move. In a 23-day mountain march that was one of the epic infantry advances of the war they slid through Japanese lines in three columns, emerged north, south and west of Myitkyina...
...Northwest Airlines Inc. flies over eight states and Canada. But its home port is St. Paul's Holman Municipal Airport, which lies in Ramsey County. In 1939 Ramsey County decided to slap a personal property tax on all of Northwest's planes, and sent it a bill for $16,913. Northwest objected, arguing: Northwest was already taxed on its planes by Minnesota and six other states, mainly on the mileage flown in each. Why should it pay a tax twice? Alarmed, the other 18 U.S. airlines joined Northwest in fighting...
...Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision, upheld the right of Minnesota to levy the full tax. The decision muddled the problem of airlines taxation even more. In the majority opinion, Justice Felix Frankfurter held that: 1) Minnesota had the right to levy the full tax because Northwest was incorporated there; 2) the right of other states to tax Northwest was a matter "not now before us." Although Justice Hugo Black concurred, he objected because the decision still left Northwest wide open to taxation by other states. Then he politely argued against "judicial formulation of general rules" (i.e., legislative...