Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked Congress to appropriate $35 million for a second Washington municipal airport at Burke, Va., 17 miles southwest of the capital, to ease nearby National Airport's traffic load, which has almost doubled since...
...life was not all tears and traumas. The Novaks saw that their two daughters had lessons in dancing, piano, singing and art, sent them to camp each summer. In 1951 the family moved from their Southwest-side flat to a $20,000 one-family house in the Northwest area. Marilyn's own lot began brightening when she was about twelve. She found a big welcome in the Fairteen Club, a teen-age group sponsored by a Chicago department store, won modeling contests there, was soon modeling for Slenderella, department stores, dress shops. Marilyn and boys discovered each other...
...main problem is an almost complete dependence on a fleet of 188 low-capacity Douglas DC-35, the 21-year-old aerial workhorses that no longer pay their way no matter how efficiently they are operated. San Francisco's cos-t-conscious Southwest Airways has cut ground stops to only 120 seconds, but maintenance and operating costs keep going up. "A spare part that used to cost maybe 80^," explains one airline man, "runs about $5 now, and has to be specially made." Even if the feeders, which operate with an average load factor of 45%, could boost their...
...Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President G. Robert Henry, only nine have been completely financed. Fairchild has taken the remaining orders largely "on good faith." The feeders would also like to buy France's speedy (500 m.p.h.) Caravelle pure jet. But only San Diego's Pacific Southwest Airlines, with three Caravelles on order (at $1,950,000 apiece), has been able to swing a deal...
Single Issue. Dalton, 56, a lanky, loose-jointed state senator from Carroll County in southwest Virginia's Republican-leaning mountain country, won the usually Democratic seat in 1944 by a write-in campaign, has held it since, despite mighty organization efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second time at last week's Republican convention in Roanoke, he found the campaign's blazing segregation issue already forced on him. As a hedge against integration, the Byrdmen -ardent states'-righters on the national scene-centralized all public-school pupil placements in Richmond, withheld state funds from...