Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's black and white and flies all over? Shamu One, the killer whaleplane, which, beneath a $125,000 paint job, is actually a new Boeing 737-300. Dallas- based Southwest Airlines, in an effort to draw attention to its role as the official carrier of San Antonio's Sea World, decorated the jet to look like one of the theme park's famous cetaceans. After a promotional tour, Shamu One begins regular service for Southwest this week. For passengers, no doubt, it offers a much more comfortable ride inside a whale than Jonah...
...them to stockyards more quickly than any hard-riding band of desperadoes on horseback ever could. A pair of California ranch hands who were arrested for rustling two months ago -- Buddy Goodman, 46, and Benton Demaree, 38 -- allegedly used trailers to ship 45 head of cattle from an area southwest of Fresno to livestock auctions nearly 100 miles miles away in San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. Only when a state cattle-brand inspector spotted a telltale marker hidden within a steer's ear were the suspected thieves nabbed...
...Even as the U.S. and the Soviet Union discuss deep cuts in nuclear missiles, a different Soviet threat is appearing on a new front. Last Thursday, two newly modified Tu-95 "Bear" long-range bombers, flying out of Siberia, were spotted winging toward Alaska's southwest coast. Two F-15 interceptors scrambled to put a "cap" on top of the aircraft, until the bombers turned back 115 miles from U.S. territory. On May Day, two high-flying Bears closed to within 50 miles of Alaska; then an AWACS surveillance plane picked up two more Soviet bombers coming...
Many relatives use their vacation days to cover their absence. For example, Joe (not his real name), a senior friend of mine from the Southwest, has 12 brothers and sisters, countless in-laws, nieces and nephews. Joe is the first child to graduate from an out-of-state school, not to mention Harvard University...
Bought by San Diego-based Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) for approximately $3 million, No. 19921 spent its first eight months hopping a few hundred miles at a time to San Francisco, Los Angeles and other California cities. Then it was sold for about $3.5 million to Pacific Western Airlines (PWA), a Canadian carrier based in Calgary. There No. 19921 settled down for 13 years, carrying passengers to such cities as Edmonton and Vancouver, as well as to remote communities in the Canadian Arctic. In 1982 PWA leased the plane to Bahamasair for five months...