Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...livestock breeding is encouraged. In the Cordón, new small towns are springing up. There are miles upon square miles of newly tilled soil and scores of "piccolinos," tiny Italian-made Jeep-type tractors. Little shortage of equipment is evident; the U.S. blockade has hurt, but trade with Western nations continues, as illustrated by the presence of British-built buses, Italian motorcycles, and West German and Japanese fishing equipment...
Mushy Deposits. In their hunt for clues to the causes and mechanisms of heart disease, researchers have learned that huge populations in many parts of the world, notably in Japan, can be well fed and still remain virtually immune to the Western type of heart disease...
Despite those setbacks, the elusive industrialist is likely to make additional moves into Western aviation. He is eager to buy Los Angeles Airways, a helicopter carrier, and has an eye on the San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines. He would also like to manufacture corporate jets and look into applications and routes for vertical-take-off and short-takeoff planes. For now, Air West fits neatly into his pattern for profit. It flies from several key cities into Las Vegas, Hughes' headquarters. In Nevada, which Hughes likes because it has no state income tax, he has picked up an estimated...
...wonder that anyone would want to buy the "Mickey Mouse airline," which is what patrons of Air West call the Western states' regional carrier. Its turboprop planes are notorious for late arrivals and departures, and the company is losing cash nose over wingtip. It ran up a deficit of $3.6 million in the first nine months of 1968. For all that, Hermit Billionaire Howard Hughes eagerly snatched up Air West on New Year...
...Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest and most progressive part of the country. You couldn't have a better territory." In deed, since the merger Air West has increased its routes by more than one-third, to 9,982 miles crisscrossing eight Western states and reaching into Canada and Mexico...