Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search had been thrown off because the rafts had drifted so rapidly southwest after being spotted by the B17. The Privateer's pilot, about 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu, was all ready to turn back; he had gone on only because the navigator had asked for eight more minutes of flight on the same heading to save altering his flight plan...
...answer seems to lie about two and a half blocks to the southwest, in the Holyoke House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose...
Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes...
...plugging trips from small towns into nearby cities for shopping, entertainment and business, Southwest has drummed up impressive payloads. In Crescent City, Calif, (pop. 1,800), Southwest turned up 318 passengers in September, the first month it stopped there...
Sick Fledgling. Nevertheless, it took stern measures on President Connelly's part to put Southwest in the black. Like most fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...