Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until recently most illegal Mexican aliens have sought work and haven closer to home; generally they went in search of agricultural jobs in the Southwest. But now aspiring immigrants have started to head for the industrial cities of the Midwest. The majority aim for Chicago, where they can quickly fade into the city's Latin population of 300,000. One observer close to the Mexican community estimates that as many as 75,000 mojados are now in the Second City...
...Congestion--As already implied, the added crowds--12,000 people on summer weekends--will aggravate the current stockyard conditions in the Square. The library will be the impetus for complete redevelopment of at least the southwest sector of Harvard Square, with two new hotels already planned...
There were no speeches, no red carpets, and the Navy band played for only about a minute. After their splashdown on target in the Pacific 225 miles southwest of San Diego last week, the three astronauts were whisked to the deck of the recovery carrier New Orleans. Then, wobbly but smiling, they were guided by NASA doctors a few steps to waiting chairs and quickly carted off atop a moving platform for medical examinations. The return of Skylab 2 Astronauts Alan Bean, Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott was in fact so subdued compared with past homecomings that...
...strongest force behind the market recovery was a drop in interest rates from their towering August peak. Some interest rates are still at alltime highs; most banks, for example, continue to charge a record 10% prime rate on business loans, though the Southwest Bank of St. Louis last week went down to 9¾%. A number of key rates, however, have backed down substantially; the yield on 90-day Treasury bills fell from a peak of 8.6% on Sept. 10 to 7.3% last week. The drop has stemmed a rush of money out of the stock market into fixed-income...
Three Lockheed Hercules cargo planes have flown troops to Zamboanga, headquarters of the southwest Philippines command and a center of the fight against Moslems in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands, according to Philippine military officials...