Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month the city heard that the well might soon run dry. The Air Force had decided that the Pacific Northwest might be vulnerable to bombing in event of war with Russia, and had specified that the new B-47s must be built at Boeing's branch plant in Wichita, Kans...
...left he promised an unspecified amount of additional work for the Boeing plants. He also said that Boeing's projected B-52 super-bomber might eventually be built in Seattle, but he added some big qualifications: if it was a good plane, if Alaskan defenses and the Northwest radar screen were built up. Would they be built up? Said Symington: "I am not a military...
...cover the news of national interest that originates in the Rocky Mountain states.* During and since the war an increasing volume of news has come from there. Denver itself, the focus of transcontinental railroads, highways and airlines, is the largest, fastest-growing business center between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. As such, it is the natural center of TIME Inc.'s news gathering forces in the area...
Deauville in northwest France (long-considered much more chic in August than the hot Riviera), where they expected to visit the Aga's son, the Aly Khan, and his bride, Rita Hayworth. Just outside the gates of their villa, a black Citroën (license number 1707RN7) crowded their Cadillac to the side of the road. Three shabbily dressed men jumped out, and before anyone could snap a finger the Aga Khan's party was looking into the muzzles of menacing Tommy guns...
...airlines fulfilled their predicted jump into the black (TIME, July 18). Eastern Air Lines' $2.1 million net was up 63%, Northwest Airlines' $430,915 profit helped offset a $2,016,000 deficit in 1948's first half...