Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With Captain McFeron, 45, a 17-year veteran PSA pilot with 14,382 flying hours in his log, at the controls, the flight landed uneventfully in Los Angeles with its 130 passengers. There 102 lucky travelers got off, but an unfortunate 100 boarded the plane for its 35-minute southward leg to San Diego. In addition to a crew of three officers and four flight attendants, the flight carried 31 other PSA employees, some with business at PSA's San Diego headquarters, others returning to their homes there from earlier flights...
...slow flooding of the Nile Valley southward from Aswan's High Dam drowned many Egyptian-built temples and, in effect, the whole of ancient Lower Nubia. But instead of a total loss, the result has been something of a windfall. For the threat inspired 30 expeditions from 25 countries to excavate frantically ahead of the advancing waters, turning up a largesse of Nubian finds that gave added weight to a long held thesis: that Nubia, which extended 1,000 miles south of Aswan in what is now Egypt and the Sudan, had a rich culture as early...
Since czarist times, the rulers of Russia have probed southward, seeking access to the southern sea lanes that are now major oil routes and thus the lifeline of the industrialized world. So far, the Western powers have succeeded in thwarting the Russians. In the 19th century the British Empire, from such places as Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the frontiers of India, intrigued and battled against Russian expansion. Britain's Prime Minister Lord Palmerston seemed to delight in all the machinations; to him, in a phrase first attributed to Rudyard Kipling, it was "the great game." In the 20th century...
Beyond New Orleans, the Mississippi River winds southward for a hundred miles toward the Gulf of Mexico. The marsh and swampland through which it flows is Plaquemines Parish...
...incurable gamblers that they are, oilmen seldom quit. Shell is moving its rig southward and, along with a group of 18 partners, will sink a second well, to a planned 16,000 ft. Mobil, Exxon and Texaco are pressing ahead with test borings of their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good...