Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lights burned late in the frame and concrete-block garages along the infield of the sprawling, 515-acre racing track on the northwest outskirts of Indianapolis. Mechanics toiled over the expensive (cost: $20,000 and up), low-slung cars, built specifically with the big brick-paved track in mind. This week 33 of the world's fastest racers will roar 500 miles around the Brick Yard in quest of fame and some $300,000 in prize money...
...YpRK-TO-ANCHORAGE nonstop air service once weekly will be started by Northwest Airlines on June 1. New great-circle flight on DC-7Cs will continue to Tokyo, cut seven hours' flying time from New York-Tokyo...
...Long's 7,500-house Maryvale development, seven miles northwest of Phoenix, he sells a house with three bedrooms, two baths, an all-electric kitchen, a garage and a 28-ft. swimming pool-all for $11,750. Long's houses, ranging from $8,975 to $25,950, offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National...
...COACH fare cut of 25% on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.) was approved by CAB for five airlines, National, Eastern, Northeast, Northwest and Delta. Rates will be cheaper than bus or train in some cases, e.g., New York-Miami air coach night fare one way $38.61 including tax v. $47.70 by train...
Snow, mixed with a northwest wind, drove across Washington's National Airport as the presidential Columbine III touched down on its special flight from Florida. Columbine's chief passenger: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 71, ordered back by his doctors from his convalescence at Jupiter Island. Fla. (TIME, April 13) to re-enter Walter Reed