Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This attitude, the product of a scrupulously enforced rule that "the customer must never be embarrassed," has helped make the 80-year-old J.L. Hudson Co. a Detroit legend-and one of the nation's most successful retailers. Though little known outside southeastern Michigan, Hudson's is second only to New York's Macy's among U.S. retailers operating in a single metropolitan area. Hudson's gross last year was $220 million (v. Macy's $517.6 million), its net about $5.5 million. Northland, the Hudson-owned shopping center northwest of Detroit, is the world...
Still there were more delays. Weather reports were coming in from the length of the Southeastern seaboard, and the possibility of cloud cover had to be calculated over and over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus...
...nation's newest airline, Superior Airlines, is scheduled to start service next week in the Southeastern states. Superior stands apart from all other airlines: it was organized by the golden-winged Air Line Pilots Association in an attempt to make a scheduled line knuckle under to its wage demands. The target: Southern Airways, a small feeder line that has 23 DC-3s, some 5,000 miles of routes between Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis and Charlotte, N.C. and a tough boss, Frank W. Hulse, 48, who founded the line 17 years...
...Billy Fryer's two first period goals the freshman hockey team routed southeastern, 7-3, at Watson Rink yesterday for its second straight victory of the season...
...will probably only succeed in cutting Nixon's margin to 10,000 votes, compared to Eisenhower's 86,000 edge in 1956. Strafford and Coos counties, which have voted with the national winner for a half century, are reported leaning to Kennedy and the Democratic House candidate from the Southeastern district has a good chance. But in the other House contest and in the election of the huge Legislature the Republicans will predominate as usual...