Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong and Guam, linking with existing trans-Asian routes, and will thus become the U.S.'s second round-the-world carrier (after Pan Am). Flying Tiger's all-cargo service to Japan remained intact. The two established U.S. airlines in the Pacific, Pan Am and Northwest, came in for minor rejiggering. Pan Am lost a great-circle route to Tokyo from Seattle and Portland but kept a new run to Japan from New York. Nixon denied Northwest a great-circle route to Tokyo from California, but allowed its new central Pacific route to Japan through Hawaii...
...night in 1962. He leaped up and began scribbling down his idea; then he called on his friend Tanner. After putting up $200 each, they established headquarters in one room of a small hotel owned by Tanner's family in Golders Green, a polyglot district of Northwest London. They were in business within two weeks. Today, at 33, they are multimillionaires...
...Goodrich Co., fighting a takeover by Northwest Industries, increased its 1968 profit from $2.76 per share to $3.25 through two maneuvers. The company shifted to straight-line depreciation and changed its method of tabulating earnings. Higher profits, of course, would tend to lift the price of Goodrich's stock -making it more difficult for Northwest to buy control...
...scene. Two ARVN Special Forces battalions were also savaged by enemy attacks 35 miles northeast of Saigon: their casualties were reported as "moderate," a euphemism for fairly substantial losses. The continued enemy pressure around Saigon was underscored by the U.S. sweep in the V.C.-infested Michelin rubber plantation northwest of the capital. After a week of battle, more than 600 enemy troopers were reported killed. To the north, along the Demilitarized Zone, U.S. infantrymen ran across a North Vietnamese force, killing 120 Communist soldiers while taking 14 dead and 30 wounded of their...
...output of one-family homes. In response to complaints that numerous small lumber mills as well as price stability have been imperiled, Congress last fall sharply limited exports of lumber harvested from federal forests. But prices have continued to rise, partly because of severe winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and the recent East Coast longshoremen's strike, which cut down the supply of timber from Canada...